What worries me it that 'two party thinking' (ie. I have to be with Party A because I don't like Party B and Party C isn't big enough) is exactly what got us here: If we all believe and act like there are only two options, there there *are* only two options. If we all went with whatever kooky party really defined who we are, then we'd have a multiparty system. If we got really diverse then we'd end up with political candidates that couldn't use 'talking points' because they wouldn't have enough of a 'base' to pander to. How nice would that be?

Yeah, it's hard to imagine where we are now - but it works well enough in other countries. Sure, various smaller parties glom together to get bigger initiatives passed, and there are compromises that they make in the process - but their core constituency is knitted to their political ideology in a way that most disassociated Dems and Repubs in our country aren't: Here they are just voting as they always have.