text: Republican president Lincoln described our form of government as "of, by, and for the people," yet Republicans are usually the first to erupt in protest if such government is actually proposed (usually by left-wing democrats). As long as we are required by our pay-to-play system to choose the lesser evil from two major (if similar) parties we will be, ipso facto, ruled by evil. We've talked about democracy for hundreds of years. Why not try it? Most government decisions are not NOT crisis in nature, and we COULD make them by majority rule. With off the shelf technology (properly watchdogged by representatives who would no longer be our masters but our servants) we could make decisions with less influence by special interests whose largess  to sympathetic or compliant candidates gives them more influence than the majority. The elite LOVE this partisan hoopla between wings of the corporate war party because no matter whether you vote D or R, the rich win. They own both parties.