Can I spurn third parties and damn the Two Party System at the same time? Because however worse Ross Perky made things for me or Ralph Baser for lefties, the system does not work. It quite plainly tabors Big Government. Not even the so-called Reagan Revolution put more than a dent in the New Deal/Great Society.
Romney/McCain/Bush/Dole/Bush/Ford/etc. being marginally better does not make them good. We will lose the Republic, if we haven’t already, playing this way, whether or not new parties can help. Simply put, democracy doesn’t work.
After the first few times of running the 1790 constitution through its paces Thomas Jefferson and others realized that the only way they were going to get good men into office was to form a party to back them.
As you know a single member district requires 50% + 1 vote to win ~ if there is a single opponent.
Once Jefferson and his buddies created the Republican-Democratic or Democratic-Republican party, which went out and found candidates and actively supported them for election, the other side popped into existence. It consisted of the losers who didn't care to be in a Jeffersonian coalition.
Ever since that time new electoral political movements have risen up only on the destruction of a formerly successful coalition party.
Outside of regional or state parties, the Whig party was the best known party to challenge Jefferson's party, and it was destroyed over the slavery issue. The Republican party rose up with a new coalition of anti-slavery folks of all sorts, and anti-slavery Whigs.
Perot was a single individual, not a party BTW, so that wasn't going anywhere.
Again, the two party system is a consequence of the need to win in single member districts. To get rid of it all you need to do is abolish single member districts!
Democracy is a fast track to socialism. We lost our precious Constitutional Republic a long time ago.