Because 2 wrongs make a right? Because trying to correct manifest BS isn't a worthy endeavor? Because let's just all quit trying to fix things, and not bother to vote, so we can have more, and worse (okay, hard to imagine) than Cheeto?
I hear defeatism...you know, the stuff that leads to defeat?

@AnneWimsey I hear naivety that you think our electoral two party system will be fixed by continuing to participate in the same broken system. There's a saying, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

@jondspen I am 70, Ican remember when We, through Unions, for example, had a robust influence on our government, and I can see that our "representatives" still have to listen when WE Are loud & persistent enough! There are numerous instances, just in the past 2 years, most notably just now with the shut-down, where WE had a huge impact.
Your negativity helps no one except Cheeto & his ilk.
In fact I am working on a post for both here & FB warning about how "defeatists" are enabled & encouraged by those who wish to further undermine this country. Why they are here, and why they would rather glower vs. Using the power they truly have, well......

@AnneWimsey You equate realizing the system is broke and needs vast overhaul to being a defeatist, which you fail to give a definition for, just use as a label to define me. I think there can be improvement, but not by continually voting Rep or Dem, just b/c that is the party you THINK has your back. Honestly, most people don't even know there is a Libertarian orGreen party option when voting. They also don't know that on a jury, you can find someone innocent regardless of what the 'law' says - called Jury nullification. I would also argue that most people vote Dem or Rep, and do no actually research into the candidates or the platform. And I am sure most citizens don't ever attend a city council meeting, county board meeting, contact state officials, and maybe every once in a while write their congressional representatives. Voting in a popularity contest every two years, then sitting on you ass expecting someone to think for you is not being engaged in government. If voting in all one party would just fix our problems, why hasn't it worked in the past when that party controlled the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches? We have had these conditions in the past, and in very rare and meaningless instances, have they done anything. Government is in the job of ruling and protecting the masses; do you really think they are going to empower the average citizen with the laws and society that will negate the need for their jobs?

@jondspen within this system, third parties only serve to defeat the best candidate. Ralph Nader should have taught us that! And Jill Stein? Not a peep since she substantially helped elect drump...the Ralph Nader effect again!
This is why you vote for the Person who is closest to your deals/beliefs, not the party, which is essentially meaningless!
Bearing in mind, if course, that no candidate will meet All of your standards unless it is you (hint!).
Labels like gay, straight, repug, dem are just labels!

@AnneWimsey well, see, i disagree right off the bat that the people the Dem/Rep parties parade out and force us to chose are the 'best' candidates. I mean really, you think Hillary and Trump were the best either party had to offer?!?!? More like both sides scraped the bottom of the barrel and provided the absolute worse two people, so that it turned into who you thought was the least of two evils.