We need a new system

[MineralMan]

44. Well, I haven't seen any parliamentary systems controlled by

any combination of the folks you mentioned, really.

As for the survival of the US, I think you're way off on your timing, there. Yes, it is divided, just about equally between those two parties you mentioned. Third parties don't do well here, despite there being many of them over the years. They're always around, but seldom do they elect enough people to be even a minor coalition party. Most elect nobody at all.

The center, both left and right of the political center, makes up most of those who show up at the polls. The rest of the population doesn't bother to vote, so they get no representation. There are many reasons they don't vote, but third parties haven't succeeded in getting enough of them to turn out for those parties, either. Non-voters make up pretty close to half of the adults in this country. Maybe that's the target you all should be trying to motivate. It hasn't worked very well with those who vote, so we do get a pretty centrist sort of elected legislature, both state and federal, which means things go on much as they have.

The bottom line is that the bulk of the voters are more or less OK with our system, shifting one way and another from time to time, but always meeting somewhere in the middle to elect people. How you plan to overcome that, I don't know, but it's going to take far more people than you currently have on your side to do that, if side is the right word. I think that "edge" is a better word.

It's not that I'm opposed to making a major change in our political and economic system. It's that I don't see any path to that, and never have seen one. We're not really an "edgy" country for the most part. At least that part of it that bothers to vote isn't that edgy. The problem really is that any major change is going to take legislation, signed by the executive of states and national government. Until you can manage that, I'm afraid what you suggest isn't going anywhere, and that's not going to happen any time soon, as far as I can see.

I'm an old fart already. I might have 20 years left. It won't happen during that time, I'm positive. That's just five more Presidential elections, and right now, everything's split right down the middle, nationally, and pretty much the same on the state level, when you take population of states into account.

Good luck.