How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

-Hunter S Thompson, 56 years ago

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it. *

Frederick Engels 135 years ago

That shithole's banana republic politics is the longest running gag in history.