Our system HAS more than two parties, it's just that all of you seem convinced your extreme left of extreme right wing splinter groups somehow represent a broad set of disenfranchised voters. They do not. People want a moderate but effective government regulation of the economy, AND effective defense of our national interests abroad. Unfortunately, no one has made a new party that unites those two moderate goals, and the two major parties have split those two issues between themselves.

I doubt that a large third party will be necessary. Sooner or later the political liability of the extreme groups is going to force one or both of our major parties to abandon its "base" and make a mad dash for that rich and fertile middle ground that they always try to get back to after they are done whipping up their "base" in primary season.