I too prefer George Washington as seen through a cathode ray tube.

It’s unfortunate that the US founding fathers were well educated, but from a time 200 years before Game Theory was understood.

Duverger’s Law says that in a first-past-the-post system, you’ll eventually end up with 2 political parties. And, 2 political parties is a terrible state for a country.

Also, you’re eventually going to get political parties even if you try to ban them. They’ll just become “clubs” or something. A group of people agreeing to act together (say a union) is always going to have more power than a bunch of people acting individually.

I would hope that any country thinking of creating a new political system, or making major updates to theirs would hire a lot of game theorists to figure out how the rules could be abused and what the system might look like in 250 years.

He also said we must avoid entangling alliances and look where Israel has got us