> both ideologies have failed miserably. I think it's a mistake to view the two parties as representing two distinct ideologies, and further to believe either

> both ideologies have failed miserably. I think it's a mistake to view the two parties as representing two distinct ideologies, and further to believe either parties rhetoric about what constitutes their ideology. Most of the game of US politics is to see how many terrible/unpopular deeds you can perpetrate against the public on behalf of the moneyed interests (not voters) that supported your campaign without losing votes to the opposition. Wedge issues and propaganda keep people voting on party lines for candidates that only occasionally act in the majority interest of their own voters, let alone the interests of the greater public.