text: It is part of the duty of citizenship to communicate with our elected officials to give them our opinion.  They may not take the advice (and they are doing for us as they consider proper) but sometimes maybe a constituent can provide information the official may need to help with a decision.  I agree the system is hurting.  The best answer for a third party (and I am interested in groups like  the Constitution Party) is to start with some local elections and build from there.  They don't have the juice to make it on the national stage yet, I fear.