I disagree about open primaries.
I agree. There is not much difference between either party, and both are so bereft of morals that they constitute almost a black hole of nothingness.
The wisdom of George Washington is proven correct. He was against political parties. Let them all run as Independents and not beholden to towing the party line or arm twisting tactics. Term limits are a must.
Hate to break the news to the author of this piece but we already ditched the two parties, we now have Trump as our President.
There aren't two parties. There's the Uniparty and us! Civil War II coming!
What “two” parties?
The killing of 60 million babies didn’t bother him. But the election of some guy broke the camel’s back.
Open primaries are a disaster
Not identifying with a party leaves one at the mercy of those who actually elect candidates
Instead of giving up band together with like minded people and run a candidate or back one
Good read; thanks for posting.
“Public servants” my Irish Catholic (rear-end).”
Lol, Bump!
If it is true that Trump has decreased illegal immigration by 75% without even building a wall, then that is a tremendous accomplishment. Let's have eight more years of this.
Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court and perhaps two more vacancies might be filled by Trump. Let's have eight more years of this.
Lynch is gone. Yates is gone. Just a start but moving in the right direction.
Democrats would like us to believe that Trump is failing. I'm not buying it.
I think the two party system is working. Much better than one party (communism) or multi parties (where a minority can still the majority/power)
The system is not perfect but the best option. The parties are in process of defining themselves. Working against themselves for the Rats, they can’t hide who they are any more. Republicans have a long way to go but they are moving in the right direction.
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.
The only way it happens is when the ENTIRE populance has enough of things “the way they are,” the truly Godly people take charge and put things back the way they are supposed to be.
FYI, Soros is dumping mad money into the DA race in Philadelphia. Now why would that be?
And Republicans, how happy are you that your leaders won’t call out the impeachment-obsessed Trump haters, or even defend the president?”
In truth this failure goes back to the 70s. Democrats began calling us NAZI and bigot and rascist etc back then and we never stopped the show and,pointed out the pure ludicrousness of this language and demand it stop. They took over language and debate then as we watched.l and did nothing.
The GOP congress looks like a sorry football team with a one point lead trying to run out the clock before the next election. They are deathly afraid of taking a stand or lead on any issue, desperately waiting the summer recess. Gee, I wish a couple of street thugs would play the knockout game with Paul Ryan. That punk really needs his comeupance.
Absolutely agree. Both parties are beyond change and redemption.
The American system of government was designed by courageous and inspired geniuses, but is run by debased and evil scoundrels.
Political parties have practically destroyed this once great country, which is why the people chose a non politician as their current president.
Although I’m a registered Republican, I’m not a partisan at heart. I’m simply an American who believes in our country’s founding ideals and form of government.
The Framers’ blueprint for America provided our people with the framework to become the most prosperous, most successful, most powerful, and freest people in all of human history. That is worth preserving, and means more to me than any political party.
I’m sure I echo the feelings of tens of millions, when I say that I will give my life to prevent the actual destruction of all we hold dear, should it come to that.
Abolish political parties and restore the default settings of our federal government.
We can do it the easy way, or we can do it the hard way, but it’s got to be done, or this nation will not survive.