The “two-party” system is a complete joke at this point. Now what?
IMHO, the first step in reforming this mess is to institute run-off election rules. As it is now, no third party candidate has a chance to upset the (rotten) applecart.
But the incumbent establishment in DC would never go for that. The only way to make it happen is by a Constitutional amendment, coming out of a Convention of States.
Not an easy way, but perhaps the only way short of, well, pitchforks in the streets.
Nows what?
Its been my observation that the first thing you should do when you find yourself face down at the botttom of a hole is to stop digging.In this case stopping digging would mean at the least mean refraining from voting for the two sets of kleptocrats presented to us in a rigged electoral system.
Members of both wings of the congressional Uniparty are more than happy to relinquish their few remaining powers to the executive; it makes reelection so much easier. When completed, we'll have a legal tyranny in which the purpose of congress will be to give the patina of constitutionality to the all-powerful chief executive of a police state.
It is way past time to reform our institutions, and return them to their designed republican purposes. That reform will not emerge from Washington, from those who profit so well from the existing system.
It can only happen if we the people assert our sovereignty and press for an Article V state amendments convention to refederalize the government, and divide power once again between the states and the government they created.
We must stop and reverse the unrestricted flow of powers into the executive branch.
Article V before we can't.