At the Florida Progressive Coalition blog, 2010 Green congressional candidate Nicholas Ruiz III riffs on Baudrillard and critiques the two-party system, and urges voters to “[seek] out other political party options as a matter of principle” –

Few would argue that the two party system is a benefit to us, while we argue that monopolies are rotten for the maintenance of integrity and fairness in every other enterprise.

The two parties, taken together, constitute a systemic Republi-crat malaise, wherein each party — notwithstanding the frequently cute quarrels and media mudfests — essentially rubberstamps each other’s policies by default. Difference in such a system is reduced to catchy, emotional sound bites, which serve to polarize viewers, spectators and ultimately, voters, while simulating difference — enacting a facade of political diversity.

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