[umanwizard]

This is how every functioning democracy already works. The blocs are called political parties.

Almost everyone chooses who to vote for based on which party best matches their ideology, not based on the individual candidate who happens to be endorsed by the party in their congressional district. So it’s not obvious why it’d be bad to decrease the influence of these individuals and increase the influence of parties.

[unethical_ban]

Agreed.

Political parties are natural; what is not natural is our voting system that limits is to two realistic options.

[umanwizard]

Definitely. In functioning systems, parties splitting and merging is very common, and there are many different parties represented in parliament.