[align=left]In the future I will abstain from voting when there are only two parties on the ballot, unless one of them really is a good candidate, like if Ron Paul actually won a primary, lol, which will never ever happen. I just don't enjoy voting on a lesser of two evils principle. Although I don't see how making what you think is a choice for the lesser of two evils actually exacerbates the problem when there literally is no third alternative. The only situation in which a write-in candidate has defeated a candidate named on the ballot as far as I know was when Henry Lodge won the Republican primaries for President in New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. I think Goldwater was one of the names on the ballot. In light of that record it once appeared to me that by voting for a write-in you have simply denied yourself a choice in that election. It is only by seeing the development of our politics over several years that I am coming to realize that being given a choice between our two parties is the same as no choice at all. 2000 was the first Presidential election in which I was eligible to vote. Do you still think I deserve the jab you just threw at me? BTW, when I said I could claim I was tricked I was being sarcastic. I know it's difficult to convey that in writing, but do you think an otherwise intelligent person would literally willingly cheat himself?

Neither party will allow anything to happen which would jeopardize their millions in corporate sponsorships. And it's not the fault of lax campaign finance rules, people have a right to donate money how they see fit. The campaign finance problem needs to be fixed by eliminating the pro quo from the quid pro quo. And maybe if we quit inflating the money supply so much these corporations would be forced to lay off some of the lobbyists in favor of increasing their traditional marketing budgets.

Perhaps if sponsoring bills written by companies which gave you money was prosecuted as bribery? HAHAHA yeah right we live in the Great US of A!!! The flow of money is the entirety of the law! He who has it, has free reign to do anything legal or illegal, and he who doesn't, may his poor soul rot in prison until doomsday. I'm ranting again, damn politics.
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