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[oldsoul]

The current events in Britain may give hope to those who wish for the same in America. Representatives are jumping from the right and the left toward another point. We should not call it the middle, because it isn't necessarily some blend of the old wings.
'Brexit' may have spawned totally unforeseen changes in English politics. The poles of Labour and Conservative parties are losing ground to new, independent thinking. That is something sorely needed in America as well.
There are signs, indeed, of similar fractures in the two party dictatorship the U.S. has been so long saddled with. What can be done to encourage this and have it go in the most positive direction?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." If that sounds familiar, and it should, that's because it was written into our Declaration of Independence. The answer to your question, in addition to the aforementioned "education", is just what our founders stated in the above quote.

 

[there4eyeM]

The current events in Britain may give hope to those who wish for the same in America. Representatives are jumping from the right and the left toward another point. We should not call it the middle, because it isn't necessarily some blend of the old wings.
'Brexit' may have spawned totally unforeseen changes in English politics. The poles of Labour and Conservative parties are losing ground to new, independent thinking. That is something sorely needed in America as well.
There are signs, indeed, of similar fractures in the two party dictatorship the U.S. has been so long saddled with. What can be done to encourage this and have it go in the most positive direction?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." If that sounds familiar, and it should, that's because it was written into our Declaration of Independence. The answer to your question, in addition to the aforementioned "education", is just what our founders stated in the above quote.

Thanks for the contribution to the issue. The cited document is inspirational and its best ideals must be preserved. It is clearly not how it would be written today.