More than two major parties? I’ve been saying that for YEARS, unfortunately the Libertarians and greens apparently leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouths, or they are just too ignorant to vote for anyone other than the lessor of two evils. And you see where that has gotten us.

I submit this:

The U.S. Republican Party has always been a mask for British Colonialism though Americans usually don’t understand that. It quickly masked itself, post-Revolution, in the religious revivalism of the time, so people embraced themselves in what they devised as an American form of simple bible based Christian worship then amongst them, came the immigrant idea to carry certain of these ideas of the political sphere. The Scots Irish and British and other Anglo immigrants hated the British but loved the British class system, they hated slavery (hence the Grand Old Party) but didn’t mind indentured servitude of their neighbors and their neighbor’s children). We have recently trounced how this party played out these themes when they were in the majority. They should be gone permanently as they always cause us to war with each other internally. Only the Democratic Party itself re-raises them.

We need many parties. Some states have more than a dozen registered parties that resonate on some level within those states. They should be encouraged to raise candidates. In fact, maybe they should be required to run at least one candidate to be viable registered during a campaign season. This country could help itself greatly by voting for candidates of other than the Democratic Party, of which I am a member. Libertarians have brought nothing to the table and went defunct with the Republicans. It is the raising of other parties that we need. The language of “partisanship” only resurrects the Republicans. That Congress insists it needs “bipartisan” legislation to avoid compromise bills is silly. It needs to pass its own legislation.

Ross Perot had a good idea in his Independent Party; it was overruled by too much faux conservatism. No one wanted that. The Greens are weak. This is the baseline where so much work is required. In my state, I will vote for a candidate from an alternative party most days.

Flip a coin, heads or tails. Win or Lose. Right/Wrong. Conservative/Liberal. While I too agree that it will take more than two parties to solve the problem, there are already many parties represented, but only two core ideologies: “yours” and “mine.”

Shar Pearce is an idiot. Lay off the crack pipe and 5 minutes and then try again. Ridiculous.

The basics of our Founding Fathers was for States to provide its citizens with primary governance with the Central Government (aka Washington) to primarily provide military/security to the 50-United States against enemies at home or abroad, secondarily to oversee issues regarding international Import/Export, and lastly to establish taxation for funding these functions….

Where has it all gone wrong? Just as our Founding Fathers sought to prevent, the Central government has, and continues to impose authority beyond that which is Constitutionally legal. The predicted corruption within the ranks of this Central Government continues to expand even into those organizations with whom Washington does business. America now has Federal Services and Offices that have expanded the Central government to the largest employer in America consuming HUGE taxes from a shrinking working-class “legal” public in which to pay for this behemoth government machine. No surprise America…we have done this to ourselves… Washington is a corrupt giant consuming more and more every generation politicians:

-They vote their own pay raises (without performance basis)
-Have NO term limits
-Exempt themselves from inferior publicly mandated programs
-Supplement salaries with “incentives” from lobbyists (corruption)
-Many fail to disclose income and pay taxes; without accountability
-Many impose personal “perks” (travel, lodging, etc.) on top of pay (when Americans struggle economically)
-Campaigns contributions add further corruption to candidates limiting candidacy to the wealthy
-Without voice of taxpayers; Washington spends taxpayer money for bailouts of businesses and banks (when politicians influenced NINJA loans)
-Washington lacks a policy of balancing its budget preferring to simply expand taxation
-Governmental agencies have a policy of “spend-it or lose-it” due to no incentive to save taxpayers money (mismanagement is rampant)
-Feel free to supplement others here…cause there’s many more, eh?

Concerned Americans MUST encourage and push our State Representatives to challenge Washington to downsize, discipline, or States should cede from the Union thereby bringing government back closer to it’s people FOR its people.

What I have noticed is that when the democrats are in power, republicans fear the government has too much power. When the republicans are in control, the democrats fear the government has too much power. I think they’re all right.

Our Constitution grants no powers to political parties. Nor corporations, nor lobbyists, nor any of the other special interests who influence our representatives. Instead of us. We The People are solely entrusted with power by the Constitution. It is our responsibility to choose representatives who will fulfill their oaths of office, which I can assure you say NOTHing about political parties and special interest or corporate leverage. Our Constitution requires it of us, in exchange for all the things it protects us from. It is our duty.

We The People are responsible for our government, not the other way around.

Alice Walker said, “The biggest way people lose their power is by forgetting they have any.”

Our Constitution does not grant us freedoms. It recognizes human rights and protects them.

There are two things going on in our government: what they say they’re doing, and what they’re doing.

Bill Mahr asks why we have an obese woman as Sec of Health and why exactly are we in Afghanistan? I ask, why do we have a lobbyist from the chemical industry as head of Food Safety? There are millions of questions we need to ask. And millions of people are starting to ask them. And demand answers.

God Bless America.

Senators used to be appointed and they were another check in the balance scheme. However, that was changed in the early 1900’s. Money gets these people into power and keeps them there. They don’t want and will never vote for term limits because that’s voting themselves out of a job and, more importantly, power. the problem is on both sides of the aisle. They are all, at least most of them, corrupt to some extent. The only issue I have with Smart Cookie is that we don’t know whom it is we should be voting for because they lie during the campaign just to get voted in. they have their own agenda and that agenda isn’t upholding the Constitution as it was written but as it helps their cause. Look at that. I ran off at the mouth and didn’t separate anything into paragraphs. Hope you don’t get a headache reading it.

Excellent point about garbage talk on the campaign trail, Just a Patriot. I feel ya. I don’t have an answer for that either. I guess we’d better start with the ones we have and let them know what we want now. And no headache here.