Political Parties do not represent the people. They manipulate the people by fomenting hatred and anger.
According to Pew Research, most people do not vote for their party but rather against the other party.
No longer is race or class the major divider, it is now Political party.
One half of the country sees the other as evil. Divided we fall.
When one Political Party controls the Presidency and both the House and Senate, there is only one voice and no separation of powers… in effect a Monarchy and a soft or hard tyranny.
When two Political parties are balanced there is stalemate as each play for reelection, demonize the other or take revenge against the other.
One solution is to have more Political parties (by allowing people to make a list of choices and have a runoff election). This doesn’t solve the problem because parties form coalitions to achieve a majority and the same problem of one or two party control occurs.
Our system was not designed for Political Parties. It was designed for representation of the people, not some private business. You wouldn’t allow a corporation to make your choices, yet that’s exactly what a Political Party is and that’s exactly what they do.
You might object based on the first amendment right to free speech and association. It says “the right of the People to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances” not a bunch of private corporations.
Government has no rights – only duties.
Secondly, the right to associate for expressive purposes is not absolute. People do not have the right of association for violence, crime, insurrection or impinging on another person’s rights, property or safety. Also the rights of association may be infringed upon by regulations which serve a compelling state interest, unrelated to the suppression of ideas, that cannot be achieved through less restrictive means. – see Democratic Party of United States v. Wisconsin ex rel La Follette, 450 U.S. 107, 124-25 (1981).
There are a number of compelling reasons of State’s (Republican form of government) interest and the People’s interest for restricting Political Parties, besides their negation of the Separation of Powers and representative Republican government of the people. They negate free choice in voting. Why? The parties pick the so called representatives. They are the Party’s representatives not yours. your community didn’t vet the candidates to see if they represent your interests. Your community didn’t put up a slate of people from which the Party could choose. No. The party picks someone loyal to them and their interests, not yours.
Voting is no longer a free choice. It is a choice, under duress, between two evils. Primary Voting between the party’s candidates is like a group of bank robbers allowing their hostages to vote for which one will blow their heads off. Is that a free choice? Voting for candidates in the election is not a free choice. It is like a rapist asking you to choose between being killed or being raped. No matter the choice, did you consent? Not of your free will. Consent under duress can not be used as a justification for the rapists actions. Yet Politicians claim a mandate to screw you because you voted for them. But you didn’t have a free choice. If you had a free choice you might have voteds for someone else outside their party. Technically speaking, nothing passed by Congress since Political Parties were established has been passed by the People’s Representatives or the People’s will.
People do not choose to go to war and sacrifice their children, representatives of Political Parties do.
People do not choose for our country to go into debt, Party representatives do.
People do not choose to raise taxes nor to steal money from them through inflation, Party representatives do.
People did not choose to create the, until then, unconstitutional direct tax on income. That was a request from the Political Parties in congress, ratified into an amendment by the political parties in the state legislatures.
If the people had a free choice, none of the above would have happened.
Are you getting the picture?
Does this not feel outrageous and make your blood boil?
Can you hear what’s being said?
Does this not put a bitter taste in your mouth?
Does this not smell fishy to you?
The only solution is to eliminate Political parties.
What’s wrong with political parties?
- George Washington and James Madison warned us NOT to create them.
- Constant Conflict, real and manufactured – To distinguish themselves Political parties must hold opposing views. An association of people formed to resolve an issue is temporary and the incentive is to fix and disband. Parties MUST have continue to be in conflict to be relevant. Therefore there is little incentive to resolve conflicts, as they are useful for fund raising and to justify a party’s existence. There is incentive to win and not to compromise and corrupt incentive to manufacture new conflicts once any are resolved.
- The political process is shaped by differences (of Partisan affiliation) instead of commonality as Americans.
- Decisions are made for the Partisan good and not the public good.
- Permanent Parties, formed with the goal of implementing an ideology and staying in power, and whose members march in lockstep on all issues replace and exclude legitimate temporary factions, whose members are united based on a few major issues, formed specifically for the purpose of correcting a problem.
- Un-elected control, by two private clubs, of selection and direction of all representatives.
- Party control determines the direction of the country and the legislation instead of the representatives of the people.
- Party bias blinds it’s members to critical facts that contradict their Political mythology and propaganda. For instance, ignoring ISIS since the myth was that the administration conquered terrorism (“Bin Laden is dead and Gm is alive”) and withdrawal of troops due to Political reasons, despite the reality of their need.
- Wining and power become the motivating factors – in elections and lead to registration, voter and other Fraud.
- A Political party can legitimize bad policy or lies just by sheer number of people expressing the same opinion or talking points.
- It’s easier to fool the public – when you have large resources and a common deception.
- Party interests come first –Parties are about themselves and their interests, not the interests of the States or people.
- Parties usurp representation from the States and the people, since there can be only two opinions instead of 100 or 435 respectively.
- At the very best even a completely altruistic “representative” will still only do what is best for the constituency in his/her distric who belong to their party and against the interests of the rest of their district.
- People’s self interest determines that they vote for the party that gives them the most privileges, encouraging further corruption and re-distribution.
- Party control shapes opinion. The people are propagandized, coerced, cajoled, seduced and even forced to conform to a party line.
- Lobbying of Political parties by special interest and foreign enemy groups is easier than influencing Individual politicians.
- We are electing an ideology, not representatives.
- Political Parties are Monopolies of Government power and should be treated the same as Business Monopolies.
- Insults and Uncivil Dissent, based on party rivalry, replaces reasoned discourse on principle.
- There is not enough competition of opinion.
- Parties regard those outside the party as enemies with whom they have no common ground.
- A “cycle of violence” is created by the desire to get even.
- Trust in government is broken by the Parties’ inability to compromise.
- Too much power leads to corruption.
- Lack of individual responsibility, when in a group. Mob mentality among the party members.
- Explicit protection of malfeasance by the group which leads to winning at any cost, with no moral restraints. For the same reason the Catholic Church protected their pedophile priests, so too Political parties protect their criminals and liars.
- Biases Supreme Court Judges to supporting their party’s agenda rather than unbiased judgment and makes it acceptable to alter and reinterpret the Constitution.
Political parties are Effectively grants of hereditary representation (Peerage and Title) in the Federal and State Legislatures violating Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States” and Article 9 “No State shall…grant any Title of Nobility”.
