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It’s not insanity, it’s necessity. We have to break up the duopoly. The fact that we just keep switching control between 2 parties that don’t actually stand for anything is a big part of the reason for this mess. We were never supposed to be a 2 party system. They made it that way by cutting off competitors.

We have to break up the duopoly.
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Based on the system a duopoly is the best chance of winning. A party/candidate needs to get 270 EC
votes to win. If the Dems hold together then it will take the GOP and some help from others to win.

What are your suggestions as to breaking up the duopoly? What changes do you see as workable
and acceptable? Nationwide popular vote won't work, imo.

Presidents of the U.S. listed in a timeline graph of elections with results of the popular vote color coded for political parties. A gray arrow points to the name of a person who became president without having been elected as president (9 total). The double arrow indicates becoming president without having been elected as vice president as well (Ford). 5 other former vice presidents are underlined (14 total). The top line indicates the Presidency number (e.g. Reagan: 40th) with Roman numerals indicating election (and term) number.

We are not a parliamentary system !
Like it or not we are a two party executive system. The Founding Fathers abhorred factions. However human nature being what it is creates them. They designed a system that winnows that down to a minimum - Two !

Two factions that fight over the one contending issue - more central government control or less. No matter how many parties you create they will always eventually reduce to two that fight over that one issue. Its been that way since the federalists & the anti-federalists, Democrats & Whigs now Democrats and Republicans. The names are unimportant. In fact the Republicans and Democrats have switched sides on the powerful central government vs not powerful central government issue.

Dividing our strength now in the face of monolithic Rat solidarity would mean conservative electoral extinction.

Trump has 90+% support, that needs to leveraged for a hostile takeover of the GOP. The old RINO bulls need to be primaried, retired or told to go from precinct captain, to county executive committee to state executive committee to governor\congresscritter\senator. The good news is most of the old RINO bulls are old. (Yes there are exceptions!). It will not happen instantly. It will take work. What the GOP needs to be is as disciplined as the Rats !