The South? North? East? West? Shall Rise Again

Here's an interesting comment on our previous post, Growing support for secession, which revealed that 22% of those polled would support secession from DC:

In fairness, this isn't just a glance back at the Stars and Bars. Middlebury ties the secession question to modern concerns as to whether our current two-party system still works. The secession questions didn't exactly resonate with respondents. But a serious 44 percent of them said yes, the two-party system can't fix what's wrong with "the United States' system."

Which does raise an interesting question: if not secession, then what's the alternative -- other than hoping something magic occurs to fix an unfixable system?