The two-party system in the United States consists of the Democrat and the Republican parties. With these two illusory choices, the pendulum swings from left to right, election after election. Third-party candidates stand no chance in the duopoly that has emerged in the bleak political landscape of the US. Is this freedom? Is this a government for the people, by the people as it was intended to be?

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

The first president of the United States, George Washington also warned of the dangers of duopoly. In his farewell address he warned: " However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. "