Great post. BUT...Why do we keep ignoring that the two parties are not branches of government? They have NO governmental authority whatsoever. The two parties can be seen as a monopoly or as a cartel, maintaining absolute control of our governments, and shooing away third and fourth party candidates who dare to try to compete.
The way to have representative government is to NOT have the two parties making a pretense of representing us. While we're at it, let's remember that 'United States' is PLURAL. We do not have one country, we have fifty. The European Union does not micromanage Italy, France, Germany and the rest of the 27 countries of the EU. They are all essentially autonomous, with only enough central control to deal with tariffs and the like. There is NO EU income tax. NO EU healthcare system. NO EU educational system. And the 27 countries of the EU like it that way.
That is what the United States of America is SUPPOSED TO BE. The reason it isn't like that is because two parties have seized control of every government, federal, state, and local. I don't need to hear about how power can more evenly be split between them. I need to hear about how the two parties will be cut down to size. It won't happen from within the parties. It won't happen by playing their game their way. Let's look for solutions that DON'T involve two oppressive, illegitimate political parties.
Great post. BUT...Why do we keep ignoring that the two parties are not branches of government? They have NO governmental authority whatsoever. The two parties can be seen as a monopoly or as a cartel, maintaining absolute control of our governments, and shooing away third and fourth party candidates who dare to try to compete.
The way to have representative government is to NOT have the two parties making a pretense of representing us. While we're at it, let's remember that 'United States' is PLURAL. We do not have one country, we have fifty. The European Union does not micromanage Italy, France, Germany and the rest of the 27 countries of the EU. They are all essentially autonomous, with only enough central control to deal with tariffs and the like. There is NO EU income tax. NO EU healthcare system. NO EU educational system. And the 27 countries of the EU like it that way.
That is what the United States of America is SUPPOSED TO BE. The reason it isn't like that is because two parties have seized control of every government, federal, state, and local. I don't need to hear about how power can more evenly be split between them. I need to hear about how the two parties will be cut down to size. It won't happen from within the parties. It won't happen by playing their game their way. Let's look for solutions that DON'T involve two oppressive, illegitimate political parties.