Perhaps it is by design. Republicans and Democrats write our election laws and do so as a mutual protection act. If there's one thing both major agree on, it's no viable third party will ever rise. Then too, both major parties owe their heart and souls to corporations, wall street firms, lobbyist, special interest, mega individual money donors. This is where they get their tens and hundreds of millions of dollars to run their campaigns and organizations.

Of course you've heard this from me before. The rhetoric coming from both parties are different, but both serve the same masters. Can you believe the two major parties combined to spend 14 billion dollars on the 2020 election, 43% of that came from individual mega money donors. In third place was the Libertarian Party with a bit less than 3 million to spend, no mega money donors, no money from corporations, wall street, lobbyist, special interests etc.

Even when some elected officials talk bad about the moneyed elite, it's done with a wink and a nudge. Raise the tax rate on them, you can be sure of loopholes and special deductions are included for those weathy donors. Let's face it, no one is going to bite the hand that feeds it.

There are times, perhaps now most of the time I think the voters are nothing more than pawns in this game of political charades or chess. We think we make a difference, but do we really? What has changed from Trump to Biden or Obama to Trump or Bush to Obama? Just things around the edges. Outside of some of those changes, it's business as usual. Sure, you have the ACA and now the infrastructure bill, but that's just crumbs around the edges, meanwhile the moneyed elites still have their way and pull the strings.

Perhaps I'm cynical, maybe a the biggest cynic in the world. We're, the voters are just a necessary evil in the grand scheme of things. Can't buy the voters, buy the politicians. I'm tied of see rich folks make it to congress and the senate only to become very, very rich before leaving. Grand design, probably so.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.