Reform Via the Elimination of the Two Party System

[velik_m]

Why is everyone so hung up on the representative system? Give me direct democracy - nobody represents me and my views better than me.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...2RuI_blog.html

“This the first time in my political lifetime that significant numbers of in bents in both parties could lose,” said Frost. “The GOP could win the Senate and lose the House.”

And it will end up being the exact same . That is my entire point.

At some point people are going to have to understand that the basis that our political 'leaders' make their decisions on is flawed. Even listening to the DNC and RNC partisans in this piece you see a willful blindness. They are worried about in bency losing its supremacy. The disconnect is huge.

the problem like this is that this is what leads to despots. You get a pedagogue that captures the ear of Americans and as this gets worse and worse the potential 'political calamity' becomes more and more distasteful on the worse end.

The framers included the ability to amend the cons ution, between that and legislation we can alter how government is run but we need the political will to do it.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Why is everyone so hung up on the representative system? Give me direct democracy - nobody represents me and my views better than me.

Most of the US electorate is more interested in 'Snooki want smoosh smoosh' than in policymaking.

I think that if you wanted to do something like that then you would have to completely decentralized and I just do not see the states being in a position where people would accept that until ICE travel became cost prohibitive for most.