As far as I am concerned, the
Republicrats are really just two sides of the same coin...endlessly dividing people on sideshow social issues, while their actions primarily reflect the agenda of the rich ruling elite whom they really both serve.
What I've never understood, is that whenever the US gets involved in nation building (Japan, Germany, Philippines, Israel, Korea, Panama, Iraq, etc), we help establish a parliamentary form of government (either unicameral or bicameral), even though we have a totally different (and quite dysfunctional) form of government.
Why is that?
In my humble opinion, elections should be publicly funded, with short election cycles, filled with plenty of televised debates, representing a variety of thought, not just those of the two dominant and symbiotic parties (i.e., the Libertarian Party. the Green Party. etc should be allowed to voice their alternative views about government - as long as they can get signatures of 5% of the voters - that should both give them a voice and representation, if they can prove through the ballot box that they have earned it under a more fair and less corrupt election system).
I hope that proportional representation through a parliamentary system will eventually be adopted once an enlightened voting public is educated about the parliamentary system (which our leaders seem to think is good for everyone but us), since it appears to work well for most of the countries of the world, and is currently the most popular system of government in the world.
ADG