I agree that the Dems should have held primaries... but I can also see that the threat of chaos was so high that Biden was nervous that no one else could beat Trump and ended up handicapping Harris in the process... it's easy to say it was all wrong in hindsight, but witnessing just how bad everything has gotten within a single year, they were right to be concerned.

I personally don't think Harris was such a bad candidate. If you look at what her proposed policies were and not what Republicans say her policies were, I think I agree with nearly all of them.

Compulsory voting by itself won't fix the problem, you also need Ranked Choice voting and election campaign laws, and a completely impartial electoral commission to draw up the maps and oversee it all. Honestly, I think the US voting system needs a complete overhaul.

I personally don't mind compulsory voting... what you tend to end up with is centrists get into power more often because the center is always the majority of a population, instead of the US system where extremists can get in because their base is much more motivated than everyone else.