>>510457814The answer IMO is not to try and dismantle the political parties themselves, because the simple fact is that they will just be rebuilt. The forces that caused politics to congeal in this way will continue to assert their control over the system, no matter what names you put on the boxes to check.
You fix the problem with substantial election reform instead. Change the rules out from underneath the players, and make the previous strategies that they have come to depend on to ignore the will of the american people no longer apply. They will, inevitably, adapt to the new system and find new ways to try and screw up, but we gain a VITAL window of actual representation in the period of chaos before the new political meta has asserted itself (which will likely take multiple election cycles) and we can do a lot to protect ourself in that time against future interference.
The big elements that seem most necessary are ranked choice voting with an enforcement of majority over plurality, and a complete rewrite of campaign finance laws to eliminate the ability for ANY wealthy patron (be it political donor, foreign government, or economic interest) to buy the loyalty of a member of congress. If we can pull off those two things, the rest of the system can heal itself.