Originally Posted by Relentless

Actually that would fix nothing in its present format. If you have 2 or 5 or 10 parties, you'd still have the exact same 'people' putting money in their pockets. Keep in mind, thanks to the Citizens United verdict 'people' for the purpose of donating money to political campaigns now includes Corporations. If you had 6 people running for President, do you really think GE or Exxon would have a hard time coming up with enough bribe, errr Political Action Committee money for all of them?

The start of fixing the system is real rational limits on campaign financing, including a reversal of the Citizens United ruling by a legislative act of Congress. The next step would be a complete overhaul of the FCC so it does what it was originally intended to do (protect the public airways) from media consolidation and blatant misrepresentation of factual events by pseudo-news. A real, vigorous, impartial media and serious campaign finance reform would give us a much more productive political system.

It would make both existing parties behave better, make the creation of new political parties possible, and make blatantly lying to the citizenry much less frequent. Unfortunately, that would require the people already being bribed to vote themselves out of office.... which won't happen.