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Kung-chieu (usually called "Confucius" in the West) offered some good advice: those who are not required to make policy, should not concern themselves with politics.

As eezzbeat points out, the two-party system wasn't invented yesterday. It is pretty much what Plato said (about 2400 years ago) would be basic to all democracies -- a party of the rich and a party of the poor, dividing the nation and causing constant conflict with people coming to power by promising to protect one group or the other and then becoming tyrants.

If we want a multi-party state, we can expect that will lead to a governing coalition, but the result may not be much different from the two-party system. One way to obtain this is proportional voting systems -- our current system tends to produce two parties, as Plato warned.

You may admire minor parties with no power and may believe that the states should have more power, but I think you haven't thought this through well. Minor parties don't control the media and are of no interest BECAUSE they are minor. They do nothing wrong, because they have no power to do anything right or wrong. Give them power and you might be surprised to learn that they are just as corrupt and just as ambitious for more power as the major parties.

As for wage limits (or age limits) or term limits or rules against pork barrel projects or removing the "present" vote, you are doing what all government-lovers do: attempting to legislate to achieve a good result. What you fail to understand is that people are smarter than laws -- and that your good intentions will have unintended consequences.

To illustrate, many years ago I was asked by my company to get Congress to change a decision made by the Department of Transportation. I asked about our congressman. I was told that he was a bit of a moron, and was the third choice of the party, because community leaders couldn't find anyone else to run. Add term limits or age limits and you may find we are forced to replace morons with imbeciles and imbeciles with idiots (and all will most assuredly be less experienced).

As for so-called "State's rights", why is it that no one reads Article 10 of the US Constitution more carefully? It says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, or TO THE PEOPLE."

You can read more in "State's Rights and the Nullification of Reality":
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=16...

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