So here we are with this huge conundrum. The RATs will with a certainty, destroy this country. The GOPe spends more time trying to annihilate the Tea Party than in doing anything substantive to change the country's direction. A Third Party is wishful thinking because the “monied folks” will make sure that it's a continuing failure that assures that the RATs get re-elected, and the idiot Libertarians continue to run candidates that also assure RAT victories. I just don't see how things will change until there's a total collapse of our government/economy, and even then everyone will still be voting for the “free lunch” folks. I don't see any path to success today.
I believe that in my lifetime the US will balkanize. Roughly half the people want a leftist controlled country and they are too dependent or too complicit to ever change. They grow in number and likely cannot be defeated electorally in the long run. Given that bleak assessment there are still millions of people who want to live in a free society. Eventually these two peoples will no longer be able to coexist under the same political system.