While it may relieve high blood pressure to call for throwing all the bums out, our two party system makes such a proposal unworkable. How many of you on the right would vote for the liberal Democrat who is running against the incumbent? I certainly can't imagine any Democrat who would simply vote for the other party to "change out" the entrenched legislature.

And independents wouldn't vote forcefully either. There are many good legislators on both sides, and many bad ones as well. Reality suggests that the system will never change within the status quo. It's been this way since the Federalists and the anti-Federalists.

Why do we think that America could so definitively change the way people think about politics when we can't even speak the same language on these boards? Without a multi-party system, we are condemned to an endless pendulum swing, within another endless pendulum swing, etc., etc.