All across the country Independent voters are finding their voice at town hall meetings. After eight years of a Republican administrations disenfranchisement. With the institution of the Patriot Act, their sanity was questioned. Home Land Security, untenable wars, deficit spending, and the housing bubble crash and more, things started to become surreal.

We now have a Democratic administration that has added to the disenfranchisement. Taxpayers witness in disbelief an administration that has lead us to even greater deficit spending. People watch in horror as the Government takes over the control of major banking institutions, huge insurance conglomerates, automobile manufacturing corporations, and a proposed government controlled national health care. All these endeavors funded by deficit spending. All the above endeavors extend beyond the Governments allotted powers.

People from both persuasions, are dumbfounded by the hubris exhibited by those elected to serve. Both parties wish to quash the opposition’s opinions, and infringe upon the rights of the people to free speech and the right to assemble.

Voices ring out across the nation, questioning the Constitutional validity of the course this nation is heading toward. When a Government of the people, by the people and for the people, refuses to adhere to the Constitution, it is established upon. When the very people elected to serve, describe citizens wishing to uphold the Constitution, as radicals, extremists or potential terrorists. It is time to reevaluate exactly what this two party system has done for us.

Is it time for the demise of this flawed two party system of Government? Is it time for a viable third party, who would truly support and defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights?

What is your opinion? Let’s hear your voice!!!

Time for the demise of the two party system?

Please!

I don't want a third party though. I want NO parties. I want people to vote on merits and voting record...not the R's or D's next to their names on the ballots. Another party is another divider of the people.

Of course....to end this we have to have campaign finance reform and end corporate influence and special interests influence by banning lobbyist from government. Make it all public funding and illegal for anyone to give a dime to a politician.

Term limits won't change anything....it has to be this way.

The party system was an issue from the founding of the United States.

George Washington's words warning concerning the 'party system' from his farewell speech, 9-26-1796:

"It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

He was right in this note.



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Originally posted by David9176
I don't want a third party though. I want NO parties. I want people to vote on merits and voting record...not the R's or D's next to their names on the ballots. Another party is another divider of the people.

Good stuff. Visonary

We either need 8 or more Political Parties or we need no Parties at all. Enough of this Bicameral System that promotes an "Us" vs. "Them" mentality and prevents change just to spite the other.

I vote Republican, I vote Democrat, I vote Independent depending on the merits of the candidate or the merits of the legislation. My loyalties are not based upon any Political Platform, but upon my moral conscience. The rhetoric of the Parties is not the compass I guide my life by, but my ideals are the basis for that compass by which I guide my life.

Originally posted by daddyroo45
What is your opinion?

Well I used to be a registered democrat. During the 2006 congressional election, all the Dem's PROMISED to end the war if they obtained the majority. During the run up to that election I can't even remember how many times I heard Pelosi criticize the war and promise to end it if reelected. Well guess what...they obtained that majority and then broke all of those promises. They had lied to us all.

During the campaign and election of '08, I kept thinking that everyone supporting Obama or either of the two major parties had to be drugged, stupid, or experiencing cognitive dissonance. Did they all not witness the lies and broken promises in 2006?

I moved states during or shortly after the most recent election, and had to get a new DL, at which point I was asked would I like to register to vote and what party affiliation....I gladly said "Yes, Constitution Party please!"

The ONLY way I will ever vote for a Republican OR a Democrat again is if they show a thorough understanding of the Constitution, and have a solid track record & voting record of respecting what is laid out in this document.

If my only choice is between a Rep and a Dem, and I'm expected to choose "the lesser of 2 evil's" then there is really no reason to waste my time even showing up to the polls.

[edit on 7-8-2009 by Paroxysm]

It's not a question of if the two party system is faulty or not. It's a question of who is a part of the system and who they don't allow to be a part of the system.

It's the fake game that's played between both parties. Let's be real about this, they all work for the same people, we know that. The battles we see in the media are fabricated and the proof is in the voting.

Do we need more independants? Yes, we certainly do, but this system of government doesn't really work when you have as big of a population as we do today.

Democracy stopped working in Greece. There is no such thing as representation anymore. It's a very hard question to ponder to tell you the truth, because changing the system would be an endeavour like no other seen before in US history.

To tell you the truth, the only way I ever see this working is by having complete transparency between government and the people. Furthermore we need to eliminate large federal government, and begin making decisions at the municipal level.

There are alot of things that the government doesn't need to have a hand in that they do. It should be left up to specific communities to vote on issues that pass before congress and the senate.

There needs to be a venue of true representation, I say down with the electoral college first and foremost, what an archaic and useless system that is.

The only way to accomplish having true representation, is what I stated above, transparancy and large municipal government, where everybody votes on vasically everything and majority rules.

Edit to Add: As far as voting goes, I'm 37 and haven't voted since I was 20. Alot of people will say that I'm part of the problem, however, when I vote here in Canada I'm presented with this.

3 bowls of crap.

The crap is the same colour and smells the same.

The choice I am given is which colour the bowl is.

~Keeper

[edit on 8/8/2009 by tothetenthpower]