WA Constitution Party: the Two-Party System Offers Americans Nothing More than a Hobson’s Choice

From the Constitution Party of Washington State via THIRD PARTY AND INDEPENDENT DAILY:

HOBSON’S CHOICE (from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary):

1. an apparently free choice when there is no alternative;

2. the necessity of accepting one of two equally objectionable alternatives.

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Thomas Hobson worked as a licensed carrier of passengers, letters, and parcels between Cambridge and London, England. He …kept horses for this purpose and rented them to university students when he wasn’t using them. Of course, the students always wanted their favorite mounts, and consequently a few of Hobson’s horses became overworked. To correct the situation, Hobson began a strict rotation system, giving each customer the choice of taking the horse nearest the stable door or none at all. This rule became known as “Hobson’s choice,” and soon people were using that term to mean “no choice at all” in all kinds of situations.

The current American political situation is HOBSON’s CHOICE in action. The voter is given two choices and two choices only, both of whom state that they are radically opposed to one another, but in reality both move the country in the same direction, just in different ways and at different paces. We would not be in this situation had not both choices let us down this path by wandering away from our constitutional roots. Both parties have had generations to correct their path and have not done it. The Constitution Party offers an opportunity to break that destructive cycle, yet voters continue to allow themselves to be swayed into HOBSON’s CHOICE by tired old arguments that didn’t work in the 1990’s, didn’t work in 2008, and won’t work now.

ITS TIME TO MOVE ON AND BREAK OUT OF HOBSON’s CHOICE. VOTE FOR THE VOICE OF REASON BY CHOOSING A CONSITUTIONALLY COMMITTED CANDIDATE OF WHATEVER PARTY OR AN INDEPENDENT, rather than someone who can be persuaded by political party elitists.