How to break up the two party system?

[hollodero]

(10-27-2016, 11:33 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Please note, the title is a question.

I think it's safe to say that most, if not all, of us on here are fed up of our 2 party political system here in America. So, the question then becomes, how do we change that? How would YOU change that? What is the best way to fix the system? What is the most realistic/plausible way to fix the system?

I believe that due to the popularity of Trump and, during the primaries, Bernie Sanders, that more and more people are fed up with the system as it stands. Now might be the best time to begin to facilitate that change. But, how do we go about doing it?

Ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions?

Honestly, I'm willing to start and/or be a part of a movement if we can come to some consensus on the best way to move forward.

Well, of course it's the majority voting system. 

An obvious solution would be a switch to a parliamentary system - which would also mean no direct election of a president. A majority in the Congress would then elect one. (With the positive side effect that a president has a majority in the House, no "lame ducks".) Senate would have to accept a minor role, probably.

And the obvious way to go is to find - and vote for - major party candidates that indeed have this point on their agenda. A vote for a third party, on the other hand, does nothing.