[citation][nom]unrealpinky[/nom]What exactly is this "system" you are referring to? There is nothing within the US constitution that prevents change either in voting procedures or operations/powers of the different branches of government. The founding fathers, in their wisdom, realized the need for flexibility and change, but only if a large majority (2/3) desired it. So, if our "system" is so broke, as you put it, then the US has only it's citizens to blame. By voting, they can institute change, but only if a large majority of it's citizens come out and vote. So rather than bash the system, you need to encourage more involvement in order to make it better.[/citation]
[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]The biggest that someone can believe in, is that one can force another tribe to build and live in democracy. The attempts to build democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan will utterly fail! Even worse they'll loose their faith in democracy forever.[/citation]
So on one hand you say the only people that can change things are the people, but the people have been bashed into such apathy as the GOP and the DNC practically force votes to go one way or the other so that an independant who is motivated to actually do something will get nowhere.
So the method of "democracy" isn't voting for the person you actually want, it is voting for system.
The people who have losing their faith in Democracy forever are the American public and the reducing turnout every 4 years is proof that people think their vote doesn't matter.
In the end, the choice was McCain or Obama, both of which are so bland and have essentially been sterilised of any ability to perform actual change becuase their espective parties - the DNC and the GOP - had they suspected they would do anything to change the bi-partisan system would have not selected them in the first place.