It's pretty clear the basic problem is that people just can't agree on what to do, where relatively small minorities feel they have the right to sabotage democr

It's pretty clear the basic problem is that people just can't agree on what to do, where relatively small minorities feel they have the right to sabotage democratic decisions once they're made, and so a lot of, individually pretty small, parties are sabotaging eachother instead of agreeing on a plan and then working to implement it - warts and all. And extra party in the mix isn't going to solve matters. In a way this is the basic problem of democracy. The idea is that a lot of effort is put into coming to a common decision (and ignoring the problems of minorities just getting overridden, it works. Plus, even with that and other problems, I'm not sure any of the alternatives is better). Then, once a decision is made everyone needs to work together to implement the decision, whatever their personal feelings on the solution chosen. That 2nd part is ever more missing from our political system.