We are in two-party hell

I find Matt Taibbi's take on what's going on in this year's presidential race excellent:

Obama and Romney feels like a contest between two calculating centrists, fighting for the right to serve as figurehead atop a bloated state apparatus that will operate according to the same demented imperial logic irrespective of who wins the White House.

 Boy, howdy, amen. As Taibbi says, this could be one of the most boring elections ever. Many people I know are either disillusioned or uncaring about the election and are telling me that they're not even going to vote.

I differ with that opinion. They should be voting for a third party candidate. There is no message to "The Powers That Be" by not voting. The more who vote for another candidate, the more telling it is to the politically elite how dissatisfied we are.

Who they vote for is less important than who they do not. So if you're disillusioned by both candidates (and well you should be), don't just stay home. Vote for someone else and show these power figures that you care. Not for them, but for our country.

Our political system is rigged to maintain the status quo of a two-party system (which, in essence, has morphed into a one-party system over the decades). Until we eliminate that stranglehold,  we will be stuck in this 99% v. 1% hellhole.