Super Tuesday or Silly Season?

Now that Super Tuesday is behind us, we can expect politics to shift into high gear.  More likely, we can expect the political silly season to inundate us with a barrage of posturing.  The remaining candidates will pull out all the stops to convince the party core that they truly represent all predominant positions.
It's not unexpected that silly season is such a part of our electoral process.  Where else, in any profession, business, industry, or ministry do we choose a nominee based on the questionable skill set of shaking hands, lying with a straight face, and kissing babies?  Even pedophiles find kissing babies unnecessary.
Let's face it, the system is grossly dysfunctional.  If any company spent over a billion on marketing a questionable product, investors would hammer the stock.  Yet, both major parties go all out to present their front men in a carefully triangulated light.  Each party carefully points out the other guy's weaknesses.  Voters are left with a choice of who is the lesser evil - Fric or Frac.
It doesn't matter.  Both are poor choices.  Both serve the same stupid system.  It is the system that fails the people on a regular basis.
When George Washington was asked his opinion on political parties, he responded that he didn't care for them at all.  He said that the purpose of a political party was to gain power, maintain power, and not to concern itself with doing the peoples' business.  Smart man.
A poll taken a few years ago asked registered voters which party they were closely affiliated with.  41% said neither.  That means the majority of Americans don't really like either major party.  (41% independent, 30% Demos, 29% Repubs)  If we really elected someone that truly represents our views, we would have mostly Independent members of Congress, non-partisan President, etc.  What a change that would be!
Would a vote for an independent be a waste of our votes?  If nothing else, it would shake up the leadership of both parties and force Washington to stop their juvenile bickering, if only to figure out how to regain power.  Would it create a horrible administration?  Maybe, but could it get much worse than $15 trillion in public debt, mostly held by China, who could at any moment tell Washington exactly what they are going to do to pay them back (the people of this nation, be damned)?
Yet, we continue to do the same thing every four years, hoping for a different result.  Isn't that insanity, or is it just, well .....silly?
What do you think?