Sometimes I wonder if you and I are using the same dictionary....

EDIT: Honestly though, it really makes no difference; I wouldn't have believed it either, but turns out things are actually a lot WORSE than I thought. I'll pop up a thread for this article around next Monday, but it removes all lingering doubts I had that the "choice" between Republicans and Democrats amounts to anything more than whether I want to be beaten to death by someone using a club and calling it that or by someone who calls it a cute fwuffy cuddle stick. What you, I or anyone reading this exchange thinks, says or does within that paradigm is less than irrelevant, because we have no role in American government. A couple hundred greedy dishonest people on Wall Street destroyed the economy of an entire planet with fraud--and impunity. A couple hundred greedy dishonest others in Houston are seemingly trying to boil that planet and objections from the rest of the world watching it happen are dismissed as tainted by greed. Agree with me, disagree; do what you like, because if we have nothing else in common, we have this: Our respective opinions on how American government should function and why it doesn't are equally trivial. Until there's a viable third party this political system and this government can't work because it WON'T; Democrats and Republicans alike well know that it is literally their job to ensure government doesn't work: That's what corporate America pays them to do.