WHOOMP, there it is.

[Mr. Evil]

72. I understand what you're trying to say.

It always happens in small increments, cutting a tax for the wealthy here, cutting a benefit there, quietly sneak in an exemption for hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosure, etc. Who are we really voting for? The republican with millions of dollars in campaign funds from wherever or the democrat with millions of dollars in campaign funds from wherever?

Our political landscape is like Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. If the republicans screw up people tend to vote democrat in the subsequent election. If the democrats screw up people tend to vote republican and so on and on and on. The results... nothing! It seems our existence anymore is simply to be some warped experiment to see just how much the American people can be conned and fleeced just to put more money and control into the hands of the very, very few. How does that build a better society? How does that promote a better future? What's the end game?

So, I'm with MadHound. We do need a third party. It won't be easy and it will require a monumental effort but, not trying is only speeding up the inevitable demise of this country. It would have to have a platform based on accomplishment and achievement. Truth over fantasy. Science and facts over fear and smear. We need more engineers, architects and astronomers, not unscrupulous, self-serving hedge fund managers and money laundering bankers. Where is it etched in stone that our government has to subsidize and even bail out corporations that act maliciously? We only seem to have a handful of people in congress that seem to give a damn and that's pathetic.

It won't be easy but, anything worth accomplishing usually isn't. We deserve better because we CAN do better!