Indeed, and this is why it is imperative that the system be open and competitive. What the Republocrats have become is exactly because everyone thinks they're the only options. Because they are always presented as the only options. They have no fear of losing power; they cannot lose power not when group think is strong enough. Not when it's "they can't do anything, so we can't present them to the People". It's very baffling on many fronts.
As the Republocrats further isolate themselves from the People, they will become more and more out of control, they will serve us less, they will go against their platforms and promises so that they may serve the corporations which fund them. So why is there so much resistance to opening the system up? To presenting more options? To force the Republocrats to defend their positions and follow through with their words otherwise we'll replace them with a party that can?
The future of the Republic is at stake, this is serious business; and so many people seem to want to revel in and cheer for the status quo which only causes us to lose freedom. Every election is between a giant douche and a turd sandwich; but we have to take it because there's no other viable option. And there will not be another "viable" option until you allow third parties the ability to freely participate and compete with the main party.
Why is there no other viable other options? I have posted most of what I have to say before. Reason one is the Republicans and Democrats write the election laws as a mutual protection act. They write them to discourage any third party from becoming viable, to even get on the ballot, to challenge them. The two major parties got really peeved that the League of Women’s voters allowed Ross Perot into the presidential debates, so they, the two major parties took the debates away from the League of Women’s Voters and formed their own so called bipartisan debate commission. Never again will any third party candidate be allowed to participate in the presidential debates.
Reason two is money, when each of the major parties are able to raise a billion dollars, each party raised a billion, the Republicans a billion, the democrats a billion. Probably closer to two billion if you count the senate and house candidates, governors etc. from corporations, Wall Street firms, special interests, lobbyists, big money donors that donate millions, super pacs and money bundlers, probably some more I forgot, any third party does not stand a chance in the money race.
These special interests have a vested interest in keep just the two major parties viable and no other party. It would cost them another billion or more to buy them off like they have the Republicans and Democrats. Better to keep all this campaign cash just going to the major parties, it is a lot cheaper that way and both major parties know where their bread and butter comes from. They make sure all these special interests are well taken care of.
I have said many times that we really have only one political party in the United States, but that party has two wings, the Republican one and the Democratic one. They give us a grand illusion of being polar opposites. They are in their rhetoric which is all the voters and party members pay attention to. But if one were to step back a few paces, remove their deep colored red or blue tinted glasses and only watch how these two parties govern, they would see very little difference. It is the rhetoric, the talking points, the slogans that are 180 degrees apart. Not how they govern.
When the vast majority of Americans buy the rhetoric as fact, when the vast majority of Americans do not check or research into how these parties govern, there will never be a viable third party. The one party with two wings will continue to run things and do their legislative favors for all those who donate the money to them, putting America and her people way down the list of priorities.