We're agreed on people choosing is better.
My point is that the current system does not allow this. The cost and the hoops to go through insure that only properly vetted corporate creatures get serious recognition. Outsider candidates would have trouble getting arrested, much less elected.
People got leery of beltway insiders, so we got bums like GWB and Obama. Very competent corporate toadies, but useless otherwise.
The two party system polarizes the population nicely so that the serfs on either side can be played against each other, but it doesn't really make for a useful society. We need to either get more parties or get rid of them altogether so choices do not come down to Boolean solutions. That is a seriously non-trivial proposition. The system is owned by the ultra rich and they will not give up control willingly. I see no solutions that are not ugly.
My take. Sorry. I would love to be wrong.
