> The entire point of voting is that you are allowed to vote for whoever is running. There’s the rub. In the United States we’re permitted to choose from eithe

> The entire point of voting is that you are allowed to vote for whoever is running. There’s the rub. In the United States we’re permitted to choose from either one or two candidates, both of whom have been sponsored by one of two national private clubs or one of their local chapters. You will not see any mention of nominations or political parties anywhere in the US Constitution, and yet that’s the system that determines who is eligible to run. In California a single club controls who is permitted to run for most local and all national offices. It’s so obviously kayfabe that I’m baffled that there are rubes out there who think this is a real choice anymore than picking “any” card from a magician’s deck is. It also ought to make one wonder who exactly the first person plural is in that overworked phrase “our democracy.”