It isn't just first past the post, either. * It is gerrymandered districts, setup over decades to guarantee seats go to one or the other party. The number of a

It isn't just first past the post, either. * It is gerrymandered districts, setup over decades to guarantee seats go to one or the other party. The number of actually competitive elections is at historic lows every cycle. * Representation per person is at historic lows. The population rises, but the seats in state and federal houses doesn't change. Even in the best case scenario, Wyoming still has over 250k people per senator. Nobody can actually represent the interests of that many people (albeit, given the original intent of senators they shouldn't, but that is a different can of worms). House seats are no better. The information era has siloed people into ideological extremes. Coupled with the fptp disaster you pointed out, the corrupt media owned by centralized interests keep the poor at war with themselves. * The obvious loopholes and exploitation of the constitution is blatant and apparent. Either anti-corruption clarification amendments are required, or a modernized rewrite maintaining the principles of separation of power and explicit rights and liberties but updated to insure things like freedom of privacy are necessary. It is a chicken and egg problem to fix, of course. Regular people cannot rewrite laws or constitutions without the ample resources to wage a revolutionary war. However, the powers that be won't either, because the current rules set them up for power and give them their legitimacy. They are a product of the system as it exists and will fight to protect it, not change it. Historically the best answer was to sail or caravan to the unsettled and unclaimed lands and try it over again, but we have run short on those options.