I've been ragging on you about your misspelling because (1) I've enjoyed doing it; and (2) because you made is so easy and indeed invited it by claiming your misspelling of the word was a matter of principle.
As to changing the system, fine. How do you propose to do it? My point was that there is no reason to suppose that writing in Ron Paul, or voting for the Dem in protest or not voting for anyone for President or any of the other approaches discussed in this thread thus far would accomplish that.
If you really believe in changing the system, offer some concrete suggestions as to how to go about it together with some evidence, such as historical examples, of why what you propose might reasonably be expected to accomplish your purpose. Have the sorts of changes you desire ever happened, and if so, how? If those sorts of changes have never happened, what makes you think that they could happen?
And when I speak of things being the way they are, I'm not necessarily speaking about the more superficial attributes of the system -- the parties, the liberal vs. conservative dynamic. I'm speaking about the way groups work and evolve, the interplay of power and influence. You can read Machiavelli and see that the wielding of power and courting of influence and the need for inspirational leadership and the processes by which a leader achieves results in a political framework were in so many ways essentially the same over 600 years ago in the context of that political system as they are today in the context of ours.
Then as now, in any political system, be it a corporation or a democratic republic or a communist state, the dynamics of operating government and the interplay of those in power are messy. It's like that in the executive suites of big corporations (having some experience there myself), the legislatures of a republic or the committee rooms of a communist state. The underlying mechanisms by which results are obtained are similar, because they are a function of the underlying nature of the human.
As Bismark said, "Anyone who likes law or sausages should watch neither being made." And as Gideon J. Tucker said in 1866, "No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session." These statements were made quite some time ago, in different political contexts, and yet they ring true to us today. Has no one tried to fundamentally change things since then?