2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Those Who Say They Won't Support the Eventual Nominee -- Consider This... [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and it is something most partisans around the world do not understand.
This is pretty basic to understand and while this link is to Brazilian politics it applies
http://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2012/11/dp168.pdf
In some states in the US, like mine. Independents are the majority of voters. The Rs are a dying concern and the dems are barely holding. The only reasons voters have not fully thrown both to the curb (though the new run off system will start that process at the state level), is because choice is not seemingly there.
Read into what is happening in California. But at a bigger picture level, (not that this will happen in the US anytime soon), the way to end corruption is for voters to punish corrupt pols and parties, equally if they feel they are equally responsible.
By the way this is not calling for anybody to vote for anybody, but extremely basic political theory.