I opined about 17 years ago how the country needed TWO healthy parties, and at the time it only had one. I was wrong about that as it turns out. We had zero healthy parties. Corruption is just as destructive, actually more so, than unhealthy ideology.
But as countries like Italy have demonstrated for over 70 years, more than two parties creates weak chaotic government.
We are in serious trouble if we can not sweep out the corruption, and get back to two healthy, if even ideologically different, parties.
I seem to recall a time when one party stood for small government, low taxes, and self empowerment. The other party stood for ‘compassion’, a ‘necessarily larger’ more giving government (welfare for the poor). Both parties used to be united when it came to politics beyond our shores. May not have been real but at least that was how I remember its portrayal.
We need checks and balances and I am not sure how that functions without two parties, even if one does not agree with the others ideology.
But while the cancer exists in the parties, we are at risk of losing the “Great Experiment”. I guess that also applies to our society as a whole. It doesn’t work in an amoral society.
The left can't be made healthy. They are the party of deception so they are the party of Satan. Their corruption reaches all the way over to a big part of the GOP.
We need to bring in new blood. Something to get rid of one of the major parties. Check out the Veterans Party of America. They’re not the kooky “free drugs for all” of the Libertarians, or the whackamole “The Earth is going to boil us alive!” of the Greenies or the “All bow down, women in the kitchen and only Christian Religion is allowed in America” of the “Constitution” party (which is neither Constitutional or a party in the roughest sense of the word.)
The VPA is literally a group of people, originally founded by Vets, who are focused on solid, constitutional principles. It is as middle-of-the-road as you can get. Literally America and Americans.
Something’s got to give. The VPA is as close to what Republicans should have been, not the GOP-e. Someone needs to go ahead and disband the Dems and move them to the Greens or the CPUSA folks to better fit their political motives. The GOP is so at-odds with itself that we need to do something.
I’m so tired of being told that because I support a third party that I have to be supporting this side or that side because I’m stealing a vote away from their chosen candidate. My vote is sacred. My vote is MINE. And so far, here in NC in the last 10 years, not a single one of the politicians we had on the ballot has DESERVED or EARNED my vote. The only PERSON (note, not politician) was Donald J. Trump.
Sorry for the rant, but our system is broken, and people keep whining about it and then when presented with alternatives, try to shut it down.