Mygaffer said:
Except that our "two party" system only exists because people only vote for the two parties. Its not like other political parties can't run or even some day supersede the Republicans or Democrats.
Again, it all comes down to voting and campaigning. The truth is we have it VERY good in the US, I've lived in other countries, in the developing world, and people in the US have no idea what is like to live such a place. There is a reason people keep voting for the people in power. Despite all our problems things are a lot better than they could be.
The issue is that our winner-takes-all system encourages voters to not actually vote for who they want to win, but to instead vote for the 'lesser of two evils.' Our system will ALWAYS lead to a two-party system, even if one of the two parties ends up being replaced with another (which has only happened some three times ever in our nation's history).
The other issue is that the US doesn't allow for direct referendum, meaning that the first issue can never be solved without a revolution, so long as we have representative voting.
The solution is to enact a system similar to the one I'll post below, which can never happen with our two-party system without a referendum, at least not within the next 50 years at least with how uneducated our citizenry is.
This video is the most important:
I also recommend this video, the prequel to the above video:
And a couple of his other videos that explain some of the issues with most election systems, and/or alternatives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU
Actually, just watch all of his videos on elections. They're fantastic.