Reply #11: I'm afraid what you advocate would require nothing short of another Civil Rights Movement.

[Selatius]

Demanding the two-party system be reformed to allow more choices, election reform or even public financing of campaigns to remove corporate influence from elections, and real regulation on Wall Street are things that will likely fail.

The news outlets that are the gatekeepers as far as what is acceptable or not acceptable as far as political discourse are owned by the same interests that do not want to see that happen.

You're going to need to see a mass opposition movement that is beholden to no party but its own policy agenda goals of reform, reform, and more reform. You're going to need something big like the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s/1960s or the Labor Movement of the 1920s/1930s that got the Social Security Act passed and the Fair Labor Standards Act passed.

The problem you are witnessing right now is many groups convinced their members to give money to and vote for Democrats, and many Democrats have not shown these groups warm welcome or have even condemned their activities as fringe.

A real movement would mount challenges against these Democrats, but so far many of these groups are apparently unwilling to go against these Democrats. This is not how it was done in the 1960s. The activists of that era were far more willing to challenge establishment candidates.