I am very much and advocate of proportional representation. This is what I grew up with here in Norway and which I think has worked very well. It is also something I observed in the Netherlands wher I lived for several years.

I read your article. It was a nice way of getting across the benefits I think. Proportional representation seems very unknown in the US. I have American relatives who are quite well educated and smart, yet they really struggled to understand the Norwegian election system when I tried to explain it to them upon a visit here in Norway.

Getting people to understand that there can be more than one representative in a district of voters, seems very hard to get across to Americans. They would keep asking "who is your representative?" but could not undrstand that I had many.

I wrote this article in the hope that I could better explain to Americans interested in understanding how other countries can have so many parties: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/why-only-two-parties-in-the-us-but-nine-in-norway-e85b2e2112c2

I will add to what you said in your article based on my own observations. Norwegian members of parliament are way way younger than in the US. There are few people who are as old as many US representatives and senators.

I have personally always voted on relatively small parties which are party of a coalition. A rich selection of small parties gives us as voters an ability to better select a party that represents our beliefs. Sure these small parties never get to hold the prime minister position, but they usually manage to get some minister positions for areas they are most concerned with.

The forming of a coalition government is an excellent way to allow voter preferences to be expressed. A government has to allocate minister positions to different parties which are part of the coalition which means power get distributed between different parties instead of centralized with one man.