[wolfcreek]

What about groups like ACORN who cheat?

Even if there were a 3rd party that could win, the results would look *Iranian*.

[DuncanWaring]

The Iranian populace is not heavily-armed.

[mysterio]

Even if there were a 3rd party that could win

Quite frankly, if there isn't at least one "third" party that can win, there's really no debate at all. If you want to know what the next 40 years of "two" party rule holds for you, look at the last 40. Extrapolate.

Certainly there will be pendulum swings. But when you observe the net movement, it has been in the direction of more statism, not less, regardless of pendulum swings.

Your two parties have been in place for about 150 years. That's ample time to share the same goal : consolidation of money and power. How do they keep that going? They keep you cheering on one or the other like it was a professional football team.

Competition is one of the reasons capitalism works. I'm not sure how any capitalist could expect that politics would be any different. Limited competition leads to an inferior product. And no amount of pontificating online and making thinly veiled allusions about insurrection is going to change that or further a cause.