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"Third parties do not exist because the two big parties don't want them to. It's bad for business and it's that simple."

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to be that wrong. The Republican party would love there to be a third party to split the D vote, and vise versa. The reason third parties do not exist is because whoever divides their vote will lose.

"The American system is winner take all: you win a plurality of votes; you win the whole state or congressional district. "

Congratulations- you've started on a journey where you will figure out the meaning of the word "Republic". There's value in actually being able to choose who you want to represent your interests, rather than just voting for a party.

This guy's whine is rather poorly conceived. The reality of the two party system is that anybody who is serious about winning joins one of the two major parties. Neither party is particularly discriminating on who they let in. People who can't win, but want to draw a lot of attention to themselves, go third party/independent. If you were to introduce a real third party- one that could compete with the DNC or the GOP, then you'd still have the same pool of candidates, just with some of them in a different party.

The reason we don't have "an independent spirit to break through the homogenized, cuisinarted horse manure that is modern American politics." come along and win all to often is because that's not who Americans want to elect. Every once in a while a freak show (like Jesse Ventura) comes along and wins, but their track records once in office tend not to be too swell.