US election system. Is the US really a democracy, or a duocracy?

[Saifoda]

Vote with your feet, and vote with your lifestyle.

If you can afford to move, live in an area that resonates most with you. I currently live in Boston and I HATE it here; looking very much forward to moving to a more conservative county in Oregon (my home state).

Don't use TV -- you don't need it, there's netflix, youtube, etc... for any news/videos/etc. you want. The major network's ratings and viewership are already at a decade+ low, a little over 2.1 million daily viewers between the top three "mainstream" media (CBS, NBC, CNN, I believe) down from, if I recall correctly, over 5 million.

Kill your lawn; plant a garden. How does this duocracy have us by the balls? Through our basic necessities; our food, our energy, and very soon (and already mostly there) our water. Water is still mostly under public domain (bad enough, some might say) but private companies are looking to buy water distribution and rights, with only the government there to regulate it; this has happened (usually in reverse, actually) across many industries, and most informed individuals like to call this "fascism" because, well, it is.

Get involved politically, locally. What Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court do is largely out of our control, but their power is derived through the cooperation of counties, cities, and states. It is much easier to change local politics than to "tag another one up" for the D's or R's you see on C-Span.