I see. Yes I totally agree, I just figured you were alluding to some point of logic in the election process whereby 3rd parties getting 0.01% of the vote somehow was beneficial for the integrity of the process.

Yea, it's certainly a shame that there are parties, but I think it's impossible not to. The top competing ideas will always rise to the top, distilling down to two. And of course their proponents will give them a name, thus creating parties. Individual politicians cling to parties because without them they're a tiny belligerent in a battle between two enemy armies.

I'll have to think on this more, but it seems the 2 party system is inevitable the way things are set up now.