The U.S. Two-Party Political System is Broken

And it has been for decades.

Democracy in the United States has been in the death throes. It is now on life support. I have been educating myself on this dynamic since the:

• orchestrated persecution of Professor Anita Hill in 1991, in part, supported by Joe Biden who was the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee;

• appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court that same year;

• results of the 2000 election when I first understood in my bones that the US Supreme Court could be bought;

• 2003 presidential claim of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq that rationalized a war historically and widely viewed as a foreign policy and humanitarian disaster.

• 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations. The court’s controversial decision reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited funds on elections.

• 2024 Supreme Court ruling which declared that a President is immune from prosecution when exercising the “core powers” of the presidency.

• And during the last year and a half, the so-called Democratic party suppression other candidates by keeping them off ballots and mainstream media outlets.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC), which is not a government entity but a private company, has systematically rigged the primary system for presidential elections in 2016, 2020 and now 2024.

I don’t vote for that.