That is a hilarious example, pdq! ;-)

Don - It's very hard to know what to suggest Americans should do...other than NOT continuing to believe in and back the existing 2-party system. If enough people stop believing in it, it will eventually cease to be viable or sustainable, and something else will take its place.

Asking people to provide an immediate solution to your present 2-party system is kind of like asking people in Germany in 1941 to provide an immediate solution to the Nazi Party...or the war. It's like asking people to provide an immediate solution to the very bad dietary habits that most North Americans are presently accustomed to: consuming inordinate amounts of junk food and sugar and legal drugs and white flour products.

I mean, heck, you can certainly point out what's gone wrong, and it's plain to see...but do you really think that a hundred million sheep are going to immediately change their past habits and stop doing what's bad for them?

No. A few will change. The rest will fall prey to inertia and habit (and fear of change), and will keep doing as they have done in the past. And presently a few more will change. Eventually enough people will change, and the old systems and old ways will collapse and give way to something new.

The main thing that I see occurring which does give me some hope is the OWS movement, because it's not trying to work within the old system. I think we have to see something entirely new, something like what swept the old Soviet Union out of existence at the end of the 1980s, and it will come through millions of individual people taking power by empowering their own lives and trusting themselves to make change rather than by relying on corrupt old political party machines and party "leaders" to do it for them.