How is American political system more diverse than that I lived under in USSR?

Other than two party system talking against each other but still doing the same things, explain to this "stupid russian" who's lived in USSR, how is your 2 party system any more diverse, and how is your media which promotes nothing but the two party system is any more diverse. true, in USSR we only had 3 channels and here you have hundreds, but is there any more democracy here than in there: for example, in USSR, people also had the right to get together and elect a bunch of communists that were not part of the party if they wanted to, they just never wanted to like in here they don't want to elect any one else besides the pre selected candidates on main stream media.

 

Go back.

 

We're one step away from having Obama and Romney break out some fiddles while the country burns. We need someone who is actually going to fix things.

 

Go back where? I'm still trying to dig out of the elite dictatorship

 

Did the Russian public get to vote for Andropov, Chernenko or Gorbachev? Could the Mayor of Stalingrad perform gay weddings? Did Yeltsin burn a Russian flag in Canada when he was young? Did candidates opposed to the War in afghanistan get to debate Brezhnev/