The Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)

We've seen what can happen when two different parties control the House and Senate. What makes you think that adding a viable 3rd party would improve the situation? Would that not simply make it more difficult for anyone to actually get things done?

Or by "kicking both the Ds and Rs out" are you really, REALLY advocating your single new party controlling the entire thing all the time? A single-party system has been tried many times in the world - dictators, communist nations and so on. Those examples don't seem to be the ideal you are shooting for either. (Oh, sure, having a Benevolent Dictator may indeed be the most efficient and desireable political situation - but there's this little problem of making sure of the Benevolent part.)

As for a time scale of 4 years - rediculous. Yes, completely open to redicule. You used the term "practical alternative" above - why then set such a horrendously IMpractical timetable for your revolution? Had you discussed a 40-year goal (as sharrukin suggested), you might have been seen as an optimistic dreamer but you wouldn't necessarily be dismissed outright.