[sport]

Yes and it does. Both sides are playing for the same team. The reason that there is this two party facade is to fool the public.

[going hot]

From " I will do this, this and this, for the country" to "I will do this, this and this for you, and HE will do that, that and that to you"

The gullible lap it up. It is just not on the radar of things to worry about for most citizens, until a few days before the election, when the media frenzy catches the public's attention, even for a short while.

The pols depend on it, then slide for a couple of years, living large.

One cure would be lamp post decoration, but no one has the stomach for it, as it "has not reached the threshold"