[lmr]

Do you still believe that voting in different Republicans or Democrats will fix things?

Name a third party that has the apparatus to give either of the other two a run for it's money? I'm waiting...

You see, that isn't the solution, either. It's a false dichotomy. The solution isn't Democrat/Republican vs. Something else. Who knows what the solution is? It's probably hopeless because of how tribal we've all become. Laments for a third party are unrealistic. We're only further fragmenting and balkanizing ourselves each day.

Americans need to come together and do the right things if we are going to get out of this mess. If we can't do that, we're done for. It's that simple.

[kearnyirish2]

People can always vote for members of either party that truly represent them, and against members of either party that don’t. The Dems lose in this arrangement because when the votes really matter, their members toe the party line and support the socialist agenda of their leadership (see Stupak, for example). Repubs who support big spending should be tossed as quickly as Dems who do, and if TEA Party candidates can be supported in primaries they should be.