U.S. Political Parties

What are the consequences of the lack of a competitive third party in national US politics?

We get to vote for the lesser of two evils.

Remember though, that we have chosen these two parties. There is nothing in the Constitution that calls for only two political parties or even the existence of any political party at all. George Washing was very much against the creation of political parties fearing the very problems that we have today would result from such partisanship.

It was only a little less than a decade and a half ago when we had a strong third party candidate in Ross Perot who was actually leading in the polls for a time. It was only a paranoid breakdown that led to his fall.

We are allowed to vote for whomever we want, in whatever party we want. All we have to do is actually vote for them.