We must ditch the two major parties for our own good

A college friend, a fair-minded liberal, did the unthinkable: He walked away from the Democratic Party, publicly declaring his disgust on social media.

The election of Larry Krasner — the anti-cop defense lawyer — as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Philadelphia district attorney was the last straw.

His post: “That did it. After 30 years of voting as a Democrat, I am no longer a member of that party ... The national Dems failed to clean house after admitting they fixed the presidential primary. And the local Dems just let George Soros buy the Philly DA's race for $1M in TV time. Enough. I’m sorry, but if you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.”

Welcome, friend, to the growing ranks of Americans who have ditched membership in the two major parties because the stink is too much, even for a loyal Democrat.

Voters who are unaffiliated with either major party, and who identify as independent, now comprise 43 percent of the U.S. electorate — an all-time high.

Meanwhile, voters who identify with either party are lower than Gov. Wolf’s job approval. Republicans are at 26 percent, Democrats at 30 percent.

Colorado is the future. The Centennial State has 1 million unaffiliated voters, more than Democrats and Republicans combined.

Unfortunately for Bucks County, Rs and Ds command a combined membership of about 386,000, but there is good news.

Between Nov. 9, 2016, and last week’s primary election, an astonishing 1,038 people here registered as unaffiliated, outnumbering the 910 who registered as Republican, and almost even with the 1,131 who became Democrats, according to the Bucks County Board of Elections.

The trend toward independence is happening because, for 30 years, GOP and Democrat leadership has promised much but delivered debacles, among them outrageous congressional gerrymandering that throttles competition.

Twenty years ago, I quit the Republican Party as I saw RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) like the Fitzpatricks, and pretty much any member of the Bucks County caucus in Harrisburg, roll the base with conservative sweet talk each election, and then jam a knife into the backs of those same people who voted them into their cushy jobs — jobs that always seem to make these office holders wealthy.

For Republicans, it’s a pro-life vote here, a promise of school vouchers there.

For Democrats, there are promises of “equality” of pay, or reversing the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” ruling on corporate campaign contributions.

Endless wars without victory, a $20-trillion national debt, job-killing trade deals and 15 million illegal immigrants who drive down blue-collar wages because they work cheap.

The two parties are led by dumb people who recruit dumber people to run. They are so vapid that neither Republicans nor Democrats have even one leader with the moral stature who, when he speaks, the country listens.

There is no Daniel Patrick Moynihan, no Jack Kemp. There are only smug men and women with perpetual disdain for us in the provinces.

If you’re a Republican, you can’t be happy with your party controlling three branches of government, and still have no Obamacare repeal, no border wall under way, no economic rebound percolating for the middle class.

As a Democrat, you can’t be pleased that Guantanamo remains open, Wall Street bankers own your party and, according to Wikileaks, your leaders rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders because it was Hillary’s turn.

You as a Democrat must be depressed (or should be) that throughout the Hope ’n Change years, your leaders allowed the hollowing of the party, as Republicans now control the legislatures in 32 states that cover 61 percent of the U.S. population, as well as control a majority of governorships.

Democrats have their smallest public presence since the 1920s, reduced to regional parties clustered on the coasts and within impoverished big cities, like Philadelphia, where Dem leaders seem fine with billionaire George Soros handing cop-hater Larry Krasner $1.45 million to purchase the DA’s job.

Now, disaster looms. Democratic partisans seek to force President Trump from office, whipping up a phony constitutional crisis that will gravely damage the country.

How grave? Sixty million Trump voters will not sit by idly as their man is driven from the presidency by people who won’t accept the results of the Nov. 8 election.

And Republicans, how happy are you that your leaders won’t call out the impeachment-obsessed Trump haters, or even defend the president?

Trump won the 8th Congressional District over Hillary Clinton. You ought to remind Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Legacy Boy, of that during his next brave “telephone town hall.”

Americans must quit these un-reformable and ineptly-led parties that divide us as friends and neighbors.

Let’s work to make Pennsylvania an open primary state and get things done for the good of our country, not a political party.

Thank you for referencing that article 2banana. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

As mentioned in related threads, the political parties exist to control state powers and state revenues that the unconstitutionally big federal government has stolen, and continues to steal, from the states imo.

Note that the feds steal state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that corrupt Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, unconstitutional Obamacare a great example.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In fact, military issues aside, noting that one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds to control an aspect of domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (1.8.7), the key question concerning the need for political party involvement in the federal government is the following.

How many political parties does it take to run the mail service?

I say none. No political parties required.

In fact, the states should amend the Constitution to prohibit political party support for federal politicians.

The states, on the other hand, can have as many political parties as they want. Those states that manage to shoot both feet off with political parties can have their stars removed from the flag.

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.

In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.

~~Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.~~

While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.

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