Just looking at campaign donations and party membership, I have to agree with the author. As awful as both parties are, you would think the third parties would be thriving right now - but they aren't. The Libertarian Party even moved into a swanky new headquarters, and is now pinching pennies to make the payments.

But this may give rise to a whole new conspiracy theory - the major parties purposely nominate awful people, just to keep the people from defecting to third parties. Hmmm...

Onward and upward,
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