People have learned that Red versus Blue is a con game. The relevant issue isn't Red versus Blue or lazy citizens. The relevant issue is predatory corporate policies. It's a cynical corporate con game to blame citizens for not wanting to line up to drink poison.
No matter which party is elected, we keep getting the same overall direction of austerity, TPP, TISA, mass surveillance, "Kill Lists," indefinite detention, secret laws, secret courts, corporate education, drilling, fracking, new wars in Syria and Iraq, a TRILLION dollar ramping up of nuclear weapons when our president is signing ANOTHER round of food stamp cuts and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing." Not a single major banker in the mortgage collapse/theft held accountable, journalists and whistleblowers under assault, mass propaganda machines...It goes on and on and on.
People don't want to go in this direction. Seventy-six percent of them say we are going in the wrong direction. So they keep trying to switch parties, or trash it all and start over, but they keep getting the same direction anyway.
When people have two terrible options, they tend to lurch back and forth between them in protest. Or give up.
Time to stop pretending that the problem is insufficient bullying of people to vote for pols who don't represent them. We have to fix a corrupt system so that they actually have something to vote for.
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