IMO, grassroots suporters exist as a revenue stream to the top leadership in the repulicrat and demican parties, ie.; financial suckers and guaranteed voting blocs and local grunt workers and cheerleaders they can count on all the time. The closer the election gets. people when they get right down to the ballot box, mostly chicken out and will continue to vote for blowhard A or B, every single time. The two parties have one thing in common, that they both 100% agree on and work together on, every election I can remember. both of them pull out the stops in the media to scare people to "not waste their vote", push that lie that your vote-no matter who you vote for-is somehow 'wasted" if you don't vote for one of the "annointed ones". Phooie, biggest historical scam running. Not to me it's not, my vote is as important as anyone's, and it doesn't matter who I vote for, it's still important, never wasted.
Yep. Where it counts--immigration, trade and "real" cuts to government spending there is not a hair’s worth of difference between the 2 parties. Both have become so corrupted with special interest money they have essentially merged into one party. The only way to fight this hopelessly corrupt monopoly of the Demopublicans is to vote for whatever 3rd Party backs serious reforms in immigration and trade.
BTW, remember how both parties in the 90s voted against Term Limits despite the popularity of this issue with the electorate? They knew that with Term Limits the gravy train of business PAC money into their coffers would dwindle dramatically. They also hated the idea because our politicos view themselves as a permanent “ruling class”...something that term limits would almost completely obliterate. It would take away the incentive of making elective politics a career by drawing in people truly willing to represent their districts and states for a limited period of time. We of course can't have that. Why this could lead to a Congress that is more responsive to the "will of the people" instead of the "will of the lobbyists"!
It's all a power game in DC and the arrogance has become so great that they, including Bush don't even bother hiding it anymore, as this Amnesty deal shows. Term limits has to be brought back as an issue if we want positive change. Sure, both parties would vote it down again but at least the electorate will be reminded as to the self-serving nature and outright corruption in the so-called 2 party system.