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[tjakey]

While I agree that the major parties are virtually indistinguishable, the fact remains that there are several minor parties that could be viable alternatives to the two "major evils".

So far as alternative parties being a realistic alternative, of course they're not, right now ... nor will they ever be if your example is followed. It may work, it may not, but if we simply hold our noses and vote for the lesser of the "major evils", or worse yet, abstain, then we'll never know, will we?

That was my point.

I hope your point is valid, and I am eventually proved wrong. But my view is that democracy in America is an illusion. There will never be a viable alternative to the major evils until this current junta is removed from power. And it cannot be removed though a democratic process that does not exist. We can no more vote the Dem / Rep out of power than the Chinese can vote the Communist Party out of power.

Should they be removed from power by some other means, any new attempt at self-rule that does not drastically rewrite the Constitution and abandon a crony capitalism / consumerism economic model that is utterly untenable, will be an equal failure.

That was my point.