Business as usual, which as each election day approaches expresses itself by the two major parties asserting to their constituencies that to vote for their nominee is to choose the lesser of two evils, has not served us well. For the past 40 years, as the Republicans and Democrats have traded control of the White House and Congress, the middle class has declined precipitously and millions of people have been recruited into the army of the poor, the infrastructure has decayed, and the quality of life of nearly all our citizens has declined, while billions of dollars of the nation's wealth has been transferred into private hands and squandered in military adventures. This state of affairs will be stopped, only can be stopped, when a majority of Americans refuses to join in this game, as 50% of potential voters who choose not to participate have already done. The problem with abstention, of course, is that someone wins anyway. This time around we have been offered a better way to break up the duopoly's hold on power. We ignore it at our peril.
