If anybody needed any proof that the two parties are in collusion, it's these goings-on with the caucuses.
The GOP would much rather field candidates who will further the demagoguery and blindly oppositional partisan tendencies which empower the "two" parties, than they would actually win the election.
The interest is in maintaining power (for both parties), rather than actually addressing any issues whatsoever. They don't need to win this election -- they get the next 8 years (after 4 more of Obama) to do exactly the same stuff the Democrats do -- for the time being they just need to keep the hatred burning. And how better to do that than subject their followers to a full 8 years of "rule by the enemy"? 4 years is too transient, too brief. 8 years is almost a decade, a significant part of a person's life. Together, the hegemony of the "two" parties is unchallenged.
Basically, the only reason there are "two" parties is because the people need to be distracted with their hate for "the other" (witness how folks around here talk about Democrats, as if they are somehow so much smarter for favoring the GOP -- despite there being no practical difference whatsoever). If politics were allowed to be about the issues, rather than just blind partisanship, it would threaten the process by which the single Statist party furthers its relentless confiscation of ever-increasing quantities of national productivity, to redirect into the pockets of those who produce nothing. It might encourage people to (gasp!) cross party lines over important issues, which is only a step away from voting for third parties or whomever actually represents their interests. God forbid!
This is why I refuse to hate the person, while I may be disgusted with their political views. Peoples' political views aren't engendered by objective consideration, but rather by oppositional hate. I refuse to be a part of this process. (No matter how offensive B92FSL's posts may be from time to time.
Someone once said, "those who cannot do, teach". This could not be farther from the truth. In reality, those who cannot do, enter politics -- or buy politicians so they can profit from appropriated resources and a veneer of productivity.
