Demographics in the American electorate are shifting, the needs and priorities of voters are changing, yet politics in the US hasn t changed much in the last half century. In fact, the only thing that has changed is that the government has gotten less and less responsive to voters.
I discussed some of the driving forces behind this in a previous examination of what it means when reformers refer to the US political system as a two-party duopoly. Two private political organizations, the Republican and Democratic Parties, have all the advantage in the US electoral process and have made themselves the gatekeepers to public elections and public office.