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Why even vote? There are no qualified candidates anymore.
Wishy washy bipartisanship is what's gotten us into every mess and kept corrupt incumbents in power for the last two decades. It's really beginning to blur the lines between the two parties, it's no longer a two party system.
It's one thing to work together towards a common goal but that's not what's going on in America right now, all bipartnership in congress is doing now is giving itself raises and passing pointless resolutions commending football teams for winning the Super Bowl >_>
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This is what results from non-compulsory voting. Politicians care less about catering to the majority of eligible voters and more about pandering to their established supporter-base, which results in a widening gulf between the two parties.
Then again, with compulsory voting like in Australia, you end up with two parties who are more or less identical and who do their best to keep election campaigns as dull and lifeless as possible, so it's swings and roundabouts.