Any history nerds who can explain how electoral reforms have come about since it seems like the incentive structure is completely aligned against the politicians currently in office ever seeing a pressing need to reform elections when it was those same elections that got them elected and so therefore benefit them personally, even if they acknowledge that they are imperfect systems.
It seems impossible. Bourgeois Democracy is such an endless crock of shit from top to bottom.
It isn't. What appears to be electoral reform only follows a mass movement, and acts not to carry out that movements will, but to diffuse and pacify that movement. Believing that "better politicians" now carry out their will, people return to their lives. Then the reforms are rolled back, again under the guide of a balanced democracy, and the cycle repeats.
Until a mass movement rejects the existing political structures and their supposed legitimizing role, and acts, never seeking it's approval, dispelling the illusion that it was ever necessary.