Theoretically, when it comes to political parties, you have a choice. In totalitarian countries, one had (or has in the case of North Korea) only one party to choose from. Here, in the US, we have only really two.
In most truly democratic countries, they have several viable parties from which to choose. If democracy is about choice, as I have often heard it is, what does that make us? One step up from totalitarianism... When we hold political debates, how many parties are invited to speak?
How many parties have the millions of dollars needed to pay off the media to get their candidates names out to the public?
Even if (by some miracle or disaster) 99% of the American voting public voted for a third party candidate for president, why is it that the choice for president would come down to whichever of the two (Republican or Democrat) got the majority of the 1% of the vote that went to those two parties?
And how many Americans are aware that our vaunted democracy is so clearly out of alignment with what democracy is supposed to be?
The question: How would you fix it? How would you give all candidates for all public service positions, and all parties, an equal chance to stand before the people, to deliver forth their ideas and plans for the future, and allow we the people to choose which from among them to believe and to follow?
How would you make our democracy one that other countries might actually consider following, rather than laugh at, or fight tooth and nail against?