The Two party system must be abolished

"Therefore, I believe we should abolish parties all together. "You won't get an argument out of me on that one. The deeper simple truth is we are in fact a one party system, that party, I'll call it the "authoritarian" party is made up of two very similar factions, democrats and republicans. Though on the outset, the two apear starkly different, when you boil it down to the important differences, well, there are none. Both parties are moving the country in the same general direction of centralized government, powerfull government and a superceding, top down system. Both parties move us away from our system of federal repubucanism. Both parties believe in massing massive numbers of laws. Both parties spend like drunken sailors. Both parties continue to believe in a fiat currancy monetary system. Both parties aquies to international bodies and preasures. Both parties are more than happy to continue getting us in to complicated entanglements and relationships abroad. Both parties are more than willing to carouse with dictators if they think it suits the countrie's needs at the time. And both parties contnue to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man hours to shut other parties out of the debates and elections. The list goes on and on. What this leaves us with is the illusion of choice, the illusion of "change" every time one faction or the other wins a majority in congress or lands in the white house. The two factions bicker and fight in a grand standing fashion, creating the illusion of debate and in the end, all we have is theater of the obsurd. I don't think even electing a third party president will effect total change either, though it certainly would benefit some and would go far in breaking the cycle of redundancy in washington. No, we must also begin looking at other parties to send to congress. We must also, and pay attention because this is far more important, MONUMENTALY important in fact, we must begin doing this AT THE STATE LEVEL. In order to begin any genuine change in this country, we MUST change our state governments. THAT is where the true power lies. The federal government, no matter WHO is on the majority there, cannot function or even exist with out the consent of the states. NO federal action can carry weight or have effect domesticly with out the backing of the states. It would only take a small hand full of states to make a huge difference.

Wait long enough and I can agree with just about anybody. For once I agree with you my friend.

We don't need to abolish parties. After all, a party is merely a group of like minded people. To abolish them completely would be a direct violation of the US Constitution. However, I do agree with your point. What we need to do is return the the Constitutional method of running the houses of Congress, and the office of the President. The way Congress is run now, Senators can hardly claim to be the voice of the states, and Representatives can't say they work for the people in their districts. They answer to Majority and Minority party leaders. The answer? abolish all language in both houses of Congress that have anything to do with party. Parties would simply be affiliations, not governing entities.

The only people that can abolish our two party system are the Amrican people.To put it bluntly,the American people don't have enough common sense to realize the system isn't working.Obama is in office because McCain wasn't a strong enough candidate. I don't know why anyone would vote for someone because of the party they represent.That's very narrow minded.As long as we have one party or another controlling Congress,we'll never get things done right. Politicians are only in office to help themselves.They don't care about the people they're supposed to be representing.

I agree but still how do you combat the togetherness of one group against another one Whether it's called Republican or Democratic group or talk show and media groups or Certain skin color groups the financial rich groups or the middle class groups the Corporate groups the small business groups the lobby groups and the humanitarian Groups. Most groups claim to do what is right for all of America and the American way of life When they have done everything under the sun to make sure the elected President fail Because of race more than anything else making comments like this health care reform Will be his Waterloo,During the elections the republicans wanted to come with race Smearing to win and have not stop yet showing pictures of the American president With a toothbrush mustache it want be long before the start verbally connecting Trying to connect him to the N word this is what some people have to go through on a Day to day basis. Good example with Health Care Reform and the town hall meeting you can rest Assured the republicans in my opinion have a lot to do with the turmoil there and It never ceases to amaze When Sarah Palin speaks not only do people listen they Are quick to take action when it is spoken by the political motivation of the Republican party maybe that is one of the reasons why she left out of office early To speak against Health Care Reform and stir up immediate confusion and kaos when she can take time out from her busy projects and agenda I wonder how the former Governor of Illinoise is doing would Sarah know the answer to that question?

I find myself frustrated with both parties. They tend to go slightly insane when they are in power. Okay, more than slightly insane. They rarely do things that benefit the people, make laws that hurt some people, and just don't get it. I hate what the democrats are doing to the country just as much as I hated what the republicans did when they were in power. Neither side gets it.