[Hoot Gibson]

The two party system has become what it was never intended to be.
My only fear is we end up with a parliament type setting where votes get skewered.
I'd be fine with it though if the Democrats broke into 5 seperate parties. The greens, the gays, the unions, the establishment, and the rest. Likewise though you'd see the tea party, libertarians, etc break up the repubs.
I don't want to end up like a European country.
Sadly though there are to many different beliefs for a two party system to hold all its voters. No way should a socialist like Bernie sanders be on the same democratic ticket jfk was.

I don't think that the problem is the parties, it is with the voters. If our educational system was not in total disarray, very few people would ever consider voting for a socialist. Every country in history that has spent beyond its means over a long period of time has seen its government and society fall.

Children should be taught the lessons of history. If our government continues on its present path, the same fate will befall us as the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and a long list of other empires and countries whose citizens grew fat and lazy and began taking their prosperity for granted.

Our schools place too much emphasis on anecdotal history of individuals and too little on events (and the cause and effect of those events). There are many great examples of deficit spending and hyperinflation leading to national catastrophes throughout history, and most college graduates are never exposed to them.

Nobody should graduate from high school without seeing photos of Germans pushing wheelbarrows full of worthless money and using it to wallpaper their homes. How many of today's students are taught why Venezuelans cannot afford toilet paper and recently had to shut down its beer breweries, despite possessing immense oil reserves?

Socialists are in control of the curricula taught in our public schools, and IMO, they are deliberately hiding the history of socialism from their students.