Great piece, something I’ve been thinking about for a long time — thank you for writing it. The obvious fractions in the binary are not only worrying, they’re downright childish.

The frenetic clinging to the two-party system is laughable given the uproar in Cleveland, with Trump splitting the party every which way over the last six months, effects of which led to the rumour-mill phantom-putsch of a Cruz comeback.

The same story arises with the DNC: the divisions between Clinton and Sanders evoke less vitriol, but still remain as contrasting visions.

Boy howdy, if only we didn’t have to have two camps — two forces, arranged across the pock-marked battlefield of the American political consciousness. If only we could have a Republican party without Trump. If only we could let Sanders and Clinton really duke it out directly for the prime position, rather than for the prestige of being the runner elect in their party straight-jacket.

Gee, almost sounds like a multi-party system.

Forcing policy and voters under singular tents is not democratic. Die-hard Sanders supporters and die-hard Clinton supporters are not the same people, not even close, and they do not want the same thing. Same rule applies to the Trump, whose relationship with certain conservative groups send voters and supporters flinging back and forth like yo-yo’s.

Imagine a political landscape, where we don’t have just two political forces smashing each other up, but four? It might sound like fantasy (Tolkien threw an extra army in there, though), but gosh darn it, I like to dream its possible. Then we could throw this ‘lesser evil’ diatribe out the window for good.