They can get 85% of Americans to vote for literally ANY FUCKING BODY. The shit is locked in, and the populace is standing around waving either blue or red flags. Any other party/candidate is considered a wasted vote, and invites derision and scorn from your neighbors.

This is the point at which our democracy is over. This country is finished.

Washington - "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."

Adams - "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."