Voting for the lesser of two evils is what has gotten us to this point.
It’s a larger issue, as anyone who gave thought to it would know. It will always, always be a choice between sinners, usually two of them for all intents and purposes. (When the government is on Jesus Christ’s shoulders, it won’t be by a popular vote.) Why have the parties served us up such abysmal candidates, and the better third parties able to drum up so little support that they can’t even equal the size of the vote for a stinky Barack Obama, is an equally valid question.