The real crime is:

The real crime is that as an average middle class American I and million of other dis-enfranchised voters have no one to vote for in the election.
A primary does not equal empowerment.
Primaries by their very nature equal exclusionary tactics.
The primary was not and is not meant to exclude people, but to prevent other parties from forming.
And.
Every four years, millions to billions of dollars are thrown into the projects to prevent a third party from forming.

Yeah. The argument is that there were over 15 candidates in the primaries this election. But. What’s the purpose behind the candidates? First. Second. That is a lie. There are only two candidates, the rest are window dressing. There are more than 15 republicans and democrats, yes, but they all march to their parties orders.
In the end, the only real difference to Americans, controls all those governmental contracts. Which is multi-billions on billions of dollars annually? And. That is what the election is all about, period.
Of course, legally we can have a third party candidate. But who can raise and spend billions of dollars that is required to be spent even before the real election begins. Who has the money to prevent the "perot effect".

Ross Perot, A war veteran. A business owner. An outstanding citizen. An honest bone and bone out citizen. A true hero if there was ever one. Then when he tried to run for president as a third party candidate, He was roasted by the media, and parties, If there is a difference?

The problem was that Perot was every thing mentioned above and more, and very little of anything else. He did not have any vices that the CIA or FBI could find. Bo matter how hard they tried there were no weaknesses to be found. And. They did hound him, some say threatened him, and some say scared him daily with false assassination stories. But they did hound him for sure. When he mentioned it, he was roasted in the papers and networks as a lunatic with paranoia tendencies. Of course, he was running for office at the time.

Basically, they could not find anything, not an ounce of anything bad that would harm him in the eyes of Americans. As he gained popularity, the more they painted him as a lunatic. Yet. After the presidential election, they gave him government contracts worth billions of dollars. By that time, Perot was a beaten man, and he knew it, and in true form as a hero he only wanted to protect is employees and settle for a government contract.

My question, if honest and sincere Perot was so crazy, why did they give him billion dollar contract to provide security and data handling for the government?
Anyway. We Americans, And I have to include myself in this category, fell for it. Bought it, hook, line and sinker. I was never a Perot fan, and did not vote for him. Yet, looking back, with the tons of history we have now, I realize my mistake.

Only now, when almost half of American middle class citizens have no representation, when we are in desperate need of a third party; are we reminded of the Perot effect.

And! That is why, self made millionaires in America do not have the courage to stand up and form a third party. Otherwise, we would have 3 or 4 Bloomberg types running for office right now.

Which brings me to my point? As long as we have primaries, in which billions and billions of dollars are spent, we will not have democracy in America. As long as the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are the same...in all sense of the word...we do not have and will not have a democratic government.

As a reminder....to those that think there is a difference. We have had every imaginable combination of power sharing between the republicans and democrats since Carter was our president. Nothing has changed. Period. Finally, as a kicker, it was democrat that started the Vietnam War. And some say it was a democrat that started this war. After all, where would we be, if Clinton did not try to assassinate Bin Laden by Bomb? Finally, if the only difference between the parties is the belief of abortion vs. pro life; then there is really no difference. Of course, the average American concerns have no place in politics. That is why neither party has a distinctive policy on the border problem, and why we do not have viable alternative policies in place. Why not one candidate have brought up Eminent Domain as an issue.
Not one candidate have brought illegal fees American are being charged daily as an issue. Why our tax situation is so complicated a ....well we all heard this one. The reason why we have total degradation of utilities accross the nation, from bridge falling, electrical failures and interuptions of the power grid, Lakes drying up, Lakes flooding towns, century old levies failing, Water coming through our tap that is not fit for our dogs. Yes, none of these are so bad to bring about rage, yet, the totality of them all spells the truth when it comes to representation...or the lack of it.
Vote independent.............vote America First.