NY Times columnist warns 'we are political hostages' because 'cruel captor’ GOP makes voting Dem ‘only option’

New York Times columnist Charles Blow explained that voters are “political hostages” to our two "captor" political parties in an opinion piece on Sunday.

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"One of our greatest errors as a country has been our nonstop campaign to convince generations of voters that elections are about freedom of choice," Blow wrote. 

He went on, "This may be true if you are of a class not historically oppressed by the state. Many white people, particularly white men, fall into this category. They have the ability — the power — to be swing voters, knowing that their basic civil rights are not on the line. And many of them have invented new dangers — like threats to the Second Amendment — while pretending to defend their rights against those threats."