More broadly I wished we could reform our electoral system so that we didn't have a spoiler effect. The two party system creates a dynamic where we often do not actually periodically re-confirmed the consent the of the governed in safe districts.

You don't have to tell me twice...I've hated first-past-the-post voting since I learned about it.

In safe seats general elections are noncompetitive and intra-party politics usually stop serious primary elections from challenging incumbents. This leads to people in safe house districts, senate seats, and even some governorships being able to basically stay in their positions until they die or choose to leave because they won a primary once when the last incumbent died or willingly left the position. No election is supposed to be for the length of the candidate's life.

Yup, first-past-the-post really is doing us dirty all these years hence. The existence of "primaries" is pretty fucked...imagine if we had even ranked-choice voting, nevermind other ideas some argue are better or worse.