Donald Trump is now laying the groundwork to claim that when he isn't elected, the system was, (is) rigged. It galls me to agree with that statement, but it is correct. The rigged system won't be the reason he didn't win. The reason he didn't win is because he didn't get enough votes to win. But that doesn't mean the system was rigged against his winning. The two party system rigs the system to mostly include just their candidates in elections. Parties use Gerrymandering to collect their supporters into a single weird looking voting district.
Both major parties do it. Gerrymandering has had the effect of disenfranchising millions of voters because it gives a political advantage to a particular party to the disadvantage of all the rest in the same geographic area. Especially the unaffiliated.
Members of the two party system like calling the millions they disenfranchise, the unenrolled, as if the unaffiliated are nothing until they are a member of one the two major parties.
The truth is that each of the two major parties have fewer members than the so-called unenrolled.
To the consternation and likely fear of some, the number of unenrolled is growing while party affiliation is declining. And so, to what should we attribute the fact that a major party can be elected as a majority in the House when that party has only 24% of the voting population?
It is well beyond time to take control away from the two major parties and install a democratic process for electing members to Congress. A recognized third major party will help accomplish that. A third party will help reduce corruption, lower the amount of big money in elections and prevent stalemates like we now have in Congress.