Reply #93: By participating in a corrupt system by voting for the lesser of two evils you are perpuating it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

I think that Jefferson and Adams wouldn't have abandoned their principles so easily as you assume. George Washington warned of the dangers of political parties in his Farewell Address.

I see political parties, of whatever stripe, as means not ends. If they fail to bring about, or move in the direction in substantial way, of what I believe in, I can see no reason to vote for them.

I've been a Democrat since 1965 and have seen the party move right (with the brief exception of McGovern) ever since in a vain attempt to capture the mythical "middle" by watering down their principles in favor of "practical politics". They have no problem in kowtowing to the right to garner votes and rely on the "nowhere to go" apathy of the left.

It's a fixed game. Some of us refuse to play.