You are absolutely right, but I would not be able to vote for either of the Rudy or Hillary. If it comes down to a race between the two of them we're screwed anyway. There are more differences in the Olsen twins than there are between Rudy and Hillary. And I don't want to sit through another GOP spend fest, I expect irresponsible spending from the democrats. When the GOP does it, it blurs the line even farther on their differences.
This nation has moved so far to the left toward Socialism/Fascism/Communism that pure socialist are considered right wing. On the extreme far right you have people who respect individual rights and they have no representation in our current political system. The press keeps pushing that the left is socialist and the right is Fascist, the problem there is that they are exactly the same and came out of the socialist movement of the 1800's. This eliminates those that believe the philosophies from the enlightenment have value from the debate by excluding them from public view. I think Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Adam Smith and John Locke's idea should be praised and taught in schools but that wont happen anymore.