Rall -- The Evil of Two Lessers: Two-Party System Is Not Democracy

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ted-rall/36364/the-evil-of-two-lessers-two-party-system-is-not-democracy

We get the government we deserve.

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The two-party system, a political mutation unanticipated by the Constitution and dreaded by the Founding Fathers, mainly relies on the “lesser of two evils” argument.

Next year, for example, many liberals will hold their noses and vote for Obama even though he has not delivered for them. They will do this to try to avoid winding up with someone “even worse”: Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, etc.

Conservatives will do the same thing. They will vote for Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney or whomever—even though they know full well they won’t come through with smaller government or a balanced budget—because Obama is “even worse.”

More at the link --