It was sort of built that way, to allow for political parties to gain or lose prominence. We can handle those ups and downs pretty well I think. The problem we're having now is actually two-fold: the news media industry is no longer independent, and the Supreme Court is no longer impartial. The vast wealth that's available to certain people, and their willingness to part with some of that wealth in order to get what THEY want - that's what has brought these two things about.
Our economy is so out of balance right now that the 99.9% of Americans who aren't billionaires will never be able to overcome the advantage that the billionaires have gained in the last 20 or so years. (Really it started with Reagan, and the growth snow-balled with Dubya and Chump.) How do we tip the scales so that a tiny bit of advantage comes back to the middle class Americans? Well we can start with taxing the ultra-wealthy. We can also stop giving them a pass every time they break our laws and blackmail us. It's never going to be easy but the longer we wait the harder it's going to be.
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