Dumb & dumber

In 1992, Ross Perot gained nearly 19% of the popular vote but "0" electoral votes. Up to that point, Presidential debates were managed by the League of Women Voters. Due to the strong showing of an Independent candidate, the Democrats and Republicans took over the debates by creating "The Presidential Debate Commission" comprised of, you guessed it, Democrats & Republicans. Since then, there have been no 3rd party candidates invited to a Presidential Debate. The only time that Democrats and Republicans work together is to keep every other party out of their exclusive club. Excluding Libertarians, Greens, Independents and every other party prevents them from gaining any national media attention and effectively silences them. Parties must gain 5% of the vote to obtain "matching funds".

I bring this to your attention to remind you that "We the sheeple" are being conned by the powers that be. There isn't a real democracy unless all voices are heard and able to participate. The current form of government we have doesn't seem to be Democracy, but Duopoly.

There's a serious budget crisis and the only thing Congress can manage to do is to vote on Obamacare for the 37th time, the only thing the media reports is four tragic deaths in Benghazi (never mind the roughly 8,000 deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan) and the only thing the public talks about is gay marriage.
We're a nation of Ostriches with our heads buried in the sand. Professional sports, garbage on TV and arguing with our old high school friends on Facebook about politics (choosing sides of the Duopoly) quickly followed by posting your scores on some inane game like "Candy Crush Saga" serve as distractions that keep our focus off of what is really important. Our education system is failing, we're being slowly poisoned by factory farms, we're eating ourselves into an early grave, climate change, etc.
But we can't see the danger until we pull our heads from the sand.