Sometimes I believe we would be better off without political parties. Both parties have driven theirselves away from their purpose, they are self serving now. In the past few years it has gotten worse. It is more of a struggle to maintain power that a struggle to serve the people that put them in office. That interferes with the oath they all take when they take office. In the end we lose.
I argue in the
Thirty-Thousand.org web pamphlet that reducing the maximum district size to 50,000 (and therefore increasing the number of districts to 6,000) will finally end the two-party duopoly. The problem is that in supersized districts of 700,000+ a candidate needs the finanical and/or "brand" support of either party. The two-party duopoly did not exist until around the 1860s. Prior to that, there were a variety of political parties and, better yet, many Reps were
independents. 
