These people are almost charmingly shameless. Rather than do better, they just want to put the fix in for the next time.
Rather than dismissing "these people", perhaps you would benefit from engaging intellectually with the idea. If you did, you would probably find that the supporters of this idea are very different from what you are imagining.
I'm quite familiar with the concept and have had to implement non-FPtP voting schemes. However, it is a trap to engage with the disingenuous.
Please don't try to shut down discussions with poorly constructed conspiracy theories.
That's the same "conspiracy theory" he's talking about..
> However, it is a trap to engage with the disingenuous.
I agree that there was clearly no conspiracy. However, the implication that was made is that the left is disingenuously conspiring in the support of this article / attitude.
> It seems fairly safe to presume it was posted in anticipation of being upset with the results
Doesn't seem like a safe presumption to me. This is a congressional election and congress is not very popular with either partisan electorate. The simplest explanation is that this is a journalist capitalizing on popular sentiment and a hot topic with an article.