Today's post, The Two-Party Swindle was originally published on 01 January 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

Voters for either political party usually have more in common with each other than they do for the politicians they vote for. And yet, they support their own "team members" with fanatic devotion. Nobody is allowed to criticize their own team's politicians, without their fellow voters accusing them of treason.

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