A Two Party System Is a No Choice System

 I'm sorry, but the only real difference between the Republicans and Democrats is that the Democrats at least use grease when they give the people the shaft. The bottom line is that special interest are the primary interests of  both parties and as long as they keep us duped and trapped in a left/right paradigm, there's not a damned thing we WILL do about it.

As long as we hold onto their left/right paradigm we will never get any real change from the powers that be. Do not, kid yourself! There is no incentive for them to do anything in the public interest, because what are you going to do? Where are you going to go? When you're upset with Republicans you vote Democrat and when you get upset with them you go back to voting Republican. Neither party really loses. They just wait for their turn at power to come back around.

The two parties are not worried about you and your needs because they know they've got the game on lock. They have effectively, with your permission (silence condones), continued to make it nearly impossible for third and fourth party candidates to get on the ballot and they have locked third and fourth party candidates out of the national debates.

The two parties are smart; they know that making sure that people identify with being either a Republican or a Democrat makes the people suggestible and gullible.The parties can present their ideologies knowing that once these ideas take root  as a a subject's identity, the subject will be open to accepting the suggestions of their political parties practically without question or critical examination. So the parties can decide the public discourse, candidates for elections, talking points, and the  issues that are supposed to be important to voters.

Furthermore, the left/right paradigm insures that you will remain on your couch waiting for the day your party returns to power and puts things right. But probably the most destructive thing that the left/right paradigm has done is to make we the people forget that WE are the government. Those folks on the Hill are our representatives. We are the government, and we need to come out of our trance. We have to break the strange hold the two parties have our political system.We must, we, must, we must, first THINK!!!! and then do whatever needs to be done to open the political system to third and fourth parties. America Elects 2012 may be a step in that direction. Check out the video below.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ThirdPartyPresi