I read it too...the last time you posted it. It's a very well-thought-out argument for how to effectively fight the Republican Party by getting all the progressives to work effectively in and for the Democratic Party...thus gradually making it more progressive than it is at present.

He also notes that the basic problem with American democracy is that the Constitution was written in a way that ended up inevitaby creating a 2-party system where " the winner takes all", and that James Madison had warned strongly against the rise of political parties, because he foresaw that they would end up destroying the democracy.

Thom Hartmann proposes what he thinks is the best solution under the circumstances. He may be correct.

I would prefer to see an end to political parties altogether, specially the Democrats and Republicans...but I know that's not going to happen in the forseeable future. They are the reigning political illusion of our time...just as absolute monarchs were the reigning political illusion of a former time.