Attack on voting

[Spongebob]

The two party system is not the problem. Our country has survived for over 200 years with the same system. Extreme politics is a problem and can cause severe rifts in society, note the election of 1860. But isn't always completely bad. If Lincoln hadn't been elected in 1860, the US could have staggered on for another half century without really dealing with slavery, possibly even longer. It was extremely painful but the rift ended the worst policy on the planet at the time. That is how the human race has inched forward over the millennia. We have, through countless cultural experiments, slowly evolved our societies from a point where we routinely murdered one another for the sake of invisible spirits to the point where we get genuinely offended when someone is called an offensive name. That's progress. It hasn't always been forward or constant; we often experience centuries of backward movement. But a lot has been learned along the way and it may take another 100,000 years or more to reach the final plateau, if we can keep from destroying everything. Our generation certainly won't see the end point. We just hope we leave the place in better shape than how we found it, but even that isn't guaranteed.