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"Ranked ballot" is the best IMO. You still end up with a representative that you have a small amount of influence over instead of an unaccountable electoral slate. It's unclear who you would bribe to get your corporatist agenda advanced, but the oligarchs would just bribe them all.
Take Green party as an example that gets 1-2% of seats now. It or similar party could adopt a single issue platform that gets 10% of votes, but it could be a RFK Jr extremist position. Current/recent Green platforms could win 30%+ of seats if CIA Canadian media didn't tell you that you are wasting your vote on them.
At any rate, ranked ballot is a massive positive with 0 "unintended consequences" from a radical change in representation system. Can push for alternate voting systems after.
If you believe Ranked is the best that's fine, but suggesting we can push for alternative voting systems after is just not realistic. The temporary solution almost always becomes the permanent one.
FPTP sucks. Media amplifies its suckitude by not polling districts and letting you be informed on which candidate is a wasted vote if you are ABC for example.
One of Trump's more corrupt than average acts was telling his party to vote against an anti-immigrant bill. Politicians making things worse so you stay angry and hateful so that you turn out to vote for the politician who keeps you angry and hateful, is a weakness of democracy and the corruption we are stuck in.
There is no actual impediment to improving anything in society. Instead of collapsing society first, it is actually easier to make small optimizations if you don't live in a dumpster fire. You are acknowledging broken corrupt system if you need the dumpster fire to get bigger for progressive views to take hold.