You can look at almost any other issue and see the same dynamic playing out. Real creativity and change are impossible because at the end of the day, they care about the power they consolidate and nothing else. What happened to the accountability we expected regarding the crimes from the last administration? How is Karl Rove allowed to be a fake news analyst and not in jail? What about Darth Cheney? It was foolish to assume that Barack Obama would do anything to hold anyone accountable. Each party ultimately protects the other. Sure they will bluster at each other to create the illusion of opposition but when push comes to prosecution, suddenly they protect each other. Same thing happened after Iran-Contra so it should have come as no surprise.
A third party candidate though may have been more willing to uphold the rule of law and make an example of people who abused the laws and intelligence in this country to further their own political or financial ends. A third party candidate may have been willing to say no when lobbyists were throwing their money around to buy votes. Because George Washington was right. These unprincipled men have usurped for themselves the reigns of government, and are in the process of destroying the engines which have lifted them into power. There is too much money in campaigns, assuring that only the rich can play at their level. They control the debate formats, assuring there are no coherent third voices heard amongst the two-opinion lie they want us to swallow. I can have over 1000 channels on my TV (but still can't find something decent to watch). I can get 32 flavors of ice cream. But when it comes to political opinion, we are supposed to buy the lie that there are only two sides. Pick one and blame the other. That is their method.
Because while they have us fighting each other over table scraps, they are finishing the work of destroying the engines that lifted them into the power they enjoy. They give up the other party as the enemy, someone we can blame for all the ills in our society and all of the bad in our lives. They are not of course. They are just another American; like you or me but maybe with a different opinion. They did not strip out the real change from the healthcare bill. They did not cause the economy to tank. They are as much a victim as you are. They are in the same sinking boat we are in, while the two parties are securing the life rafts for themselves.
The republic is sick and dying. But not from a lack of healthcare, poor education, or a decimated economy. Sure those are important but fixing the symptoms without addressing the cancer is like using a band aid when a tourniquet is needed. Now is the time to try and do something; anything about the two-party system. Before 2012. Because if we get there it will be Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin winking at us from one side while Obama winks at us from the other. Both steeped in the disease and neither caring that one day, it will kill us.
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