Right, Richard. ;-D I couldn't let her live with that knowledge, could I?

Now look, Mary...if, as I have long asserted, the same corporate/banking/military elite really controls both the Republican and the Democratic Parties....then they could easily opt to have either one of those parties win a given election, correct? And it wouldn't make a whole hell of a lot of difference which one did. The corruption and the wars would go on. And they have.

But it does make a big difference to the politicians themselves and to the party itself who wins, because there are major financial and career and ego perks involved in playing that game and winning it. This is obvious. No politician wants to lose the game.

I think the main purpose of the patently corrupt and phony election excercise that takes place every 4 years in the USA is to keep the American public itself distracted, bitterly divided, yet ever hopeful, and still naively believing in their old (once) democratic institutions, despite having been betrayed by them again, and again, and again, and again!

It's a cyclical sales and propaganada job by the ruling elite to mollify and control the American public, that's all. It sure doesn't fool anyone else. If the general American public fully realized what is actually going on in their government, if they realized the utterly criminal nature of the system they are living under, they would abandon both those parties for good and there'd be a 2nd American Revolution. Heads would roll. It would make the first Revolution look like a cakewalk.