Trump or Hillary as President, who else is petrified?

[Emiliano]

As far back as I've been observing US elections, it's an unfailingly bipartite matter.

I've been meaning to ask someone what role do independent factions have in these elections.

I think the idea of third parties as an option is very sloooooowly growing on Americans. But yeah... By far the two parties control the scene. Both want to pick up third party and independent votes though. Asides from fake third parties like the tea party, most are aware that it has to be a grassroots growth though, before we could dream of having a Green president, we need Greens in local offices. So those votes in national elections often go to one of the major parties.

I think some states allow them to vote in the democratic and republican primaries, but New York doesn't. You have to be registered like 6 months in advance I think, for the party whose primaries you want to vote in. The big joke right now is that the Trump kids couldn't vote for their own dad because they didn't register as republicans early enough. If local communities had really tried to educate people more, I think some third party people would have probably registered as democrats to support Sanders. Today a lot of third party people are acting shocked that they got turned away yesterday - it's important to know the rules if you want to participate...

A big problem too is only a little over half of Americans actually vote. And thats divided along economic and education lines. So as is often the case, it's the wealthy and educated among us that are making the decisions.