I share your cynicism with the system, RD, however, just because the choice is between the lesser of two dicks that doesn't mean you shouldn't exercise that choice. Every election I become apathetic towards the process, but the voices in my brain keep chanting 'dubya, dubya, dubya.'
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell