The two-party trap: Voters are asked to choose between two candidates. Both are unpalatable. Neither represents their interests. But they’re convinced to participate in the system with the argument that, if they don’t vote for the slight-least-awful option, the slight-worst one will win and make things worse.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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The Germans got both Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhelm Göring – without being forced to choose between the two. Surely you’re not suggesting the the US electorate is going to get a combination of Barack Hussein Obama and Willard Mitt Romney, as a sort of nod to their German predecessors ?…
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