Booko
Deviled Hen
PureX said:I'll continue to vote for third party candidates, hoping that some day my fellow citizens will wake up and see that the wealthy elite are calling the shots in both major parties, and the only way to counter them is by creating and supporting ligitimate third, forth, and fifth parties until we can finally get some real campaign finance reforms passed.
There's a growing interest in third-party candidates around here. Libertarian candidates do especially well, and draw old-fashioned conservative votes away, as well as some of the more liberal voters who object to gov't overreaching into private lives.
If things persist as they have, I suspect it will not be long until the Libertarian candidates break into politics on the level of the state legislature.
If so, that will shake up the apple cart a bit.
I don't think political parties of any sort are an answer, though, because they inherently divide people into camps. Personally, I'd rather see political parties of any sort banned outright. Well, I won't be holding my breath waiting for that day, though, as I am not silly enough to expect it to happen in my lifetime.