Portugal is soooooo much more progressive than the USA, and I’m willing to bet that having something a lot closer to actual democracy than they do is part of the reason.
I think you’re misunderstanding the effect of not having FPTP. It’s not that you get rid of FPTP and suddenly the mainstream party loses power - not at all, but rather what happens is that they see first hand how close they are to losing power by the number of people casting their primary votes elsewhere. That means they are forced to cater their policies at least a little bit toward all those people, and it ends up having a real meaningful impact on their platform. Whereas in the US, the FPTP system rewards Democrats not for following the wills of the most people, but rather for just being very slightly less right wing than the Republicans, because that way they’ll scoop up the votes of everyone to the left of them, regardless how far left.
Google creates that problem though by continuing to use a ranking algorithm that promotes that type of content. It’s been an issue for many years and they don’t change it
We’ve had guns for 200 years but not ones capable of mass shootings. Semiautomatics only became widely available more recently, and most countries have since banned them from casual use but not the USA
A union is a good idea but this is also something you can and should take into your own hands too. If your wage hasn’t gone up at all in a couple years you should be complaining about that very loudly to your bosses individually. It helps even more if you can get some other job offers to be able to compare your current wage to
People have been saying that about Chrome for at least a decade and it’s never happened. If it does actually happen (it won’t) then I’ll switch but no reason to switch before then.