Interesting point, Jacob. You may be right about that...

But the first post in response to this thread was the real answer...there is no real choice in American elections because money determines:

1. Who can run for office.

2. Who can afford a huge campaign.

3. Who can dominate the media.

4. Whose career and reputation will or will not be destroyed.

5. Whose life is on the line. Remember Martin Luther King?

I mean BIG money. Corporate money. The USA is run by corporate robber barons who are exploiting almost the entire world with impunity, because...nobody in the general public knows who they even are!!! Or where they live. Or what they do. The politicians are their little puppets.

A vote for either the Democrats or the Republicans is a vote for the Machine that is the tool of corporate money. A vote for the larger Canadian political parties is a vote for a branch plant of that same Machine. As for small parties like the Natural Law Party or the Green Party....they are not controlled by the Machine, but they haven't a hope of getting elected, because the Machine controls BIG money and the media.

I voted Natural Law in the last 2 elections in Canada. Why? Their local candidate is a brilliant and extraordinary man, and their ideas are absolutely new and wonderful.

I will not vote for the Machine. I wouldn't vote for the Democrats or Republicans if they got down on their knees and begged me. They don't need me, of course, so why would they care? Enough people will still go out and rubber stamp the Money Machine's ballot so that either Gush or Bore gets elected. No worries on that score. Big Brother is alive and well on Wall Street and in the corporate boardrooms and the head offices of the banks in New York, London, Zurich, and Paris.