[Windflier]

How can we abolish the right of people to “freely assemble,” as the parties will consider themselves?

I'm not advocating to abolish political parties outside of government. That would be un-American, and wholly unconstitutional.

I just want to erect a firewall between political parties and those who serve in stations of public trust. Two hundred and forty years of experience has shown that political parties are ruinous to the people's liberties, when allowed to operate freely within our government.

[Yaelle]

I hear you. But even “not having a party” won’t stop alliances inside government, that will not have our best interests at heart. It won’t be a magic eraser for the corruption that has clearly taken us over, government wise.

And I am not being pessimistic. I actually believe in the American people, and I believe we could disinfect and drain the swam EASILY if we all understood. With or without parties. How to get the rest of us awake? Parties do hurt us when people feel they have to vote for the party their friends like.