Who out there is an independent who gets tired of hearing two party partisan trivial juvenile bickering?

Question

Vote third party. Greens, Socialist, Constitution, Libertarian, etc. Anyone except these two-party corporate tools in bad suits. We need to evolve past this phase in American politics.

Answer 1

Me. I refuse to be pigeon-holed. I have voted for 5 different parties over the course of my life, and am a registered Independent.

The problem is that the system is heavily skewed toward the 2 parties over any challengers. Third parties face an uphill battle from day 1 - debate access, fund-raising, matching federal dollars, ballot access, etc.

We can have 300+ types of breakfast cereal to choose from, but only 2 ho-hum choices to run our country? We deserve better.

Answer 2

I'm not an independent, but I sure do get tired of hearing two party partisan trivial juvenile bickering! However, voting for a third party will only work if there is enough support for that part to actually get someone elected, otherwise, it just takes votes away from one of the two major parties, usually the democrats, and that's not always a good thing.

Answer 3

I hear you, but can't afford you, yet.

Splitting the Democratic vote will mean another Republican majority in House and Senate, another Republican president (most people who are calling for a third party are more Dem-leaning than Republican-leaning). That's all but suicidal in these upcoming elections.

Third party candidates can get elected if they are extremely popular in the arena in which they operate, and can command a large share of those votes. I'm not familiar with all of the races across the country; perhaps there are third party candidates in some of them who fit that description. But, they cannot command a majority in the House or Senate, and there is no realistically viable third party presidential candidate.

A third party vote just for the sake of voting for a non-Republican or non-Democrat is essentially the same as abstaining from the voting process entirely. A wasted effort.

We voters need to try to fix the mistakes we have made, and repair the damage we have caused in the world. That won't happen if we are too divided to be able to see clearly what is at stake.

Only with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate, and a Democrat President, can we begin to reverse the changes to the laws that have been made, and regain the ground we have lost since GWB took office. There cannot be enough third party representatives or senators elected in these upcoming elections to give any third party a majority.

And, like it or not, unless a superstar, third party dark-horse emerges quickly, and proves to the country that he/she is overwhelmingly the best choice for president based on their prior political experience and mastery, we will have either a Democrat or a Republican in office after GWB. Wishful thinking, and wishful voting, will not make it otherwise.

I support the idea of a third party, or a fourth, or fifth party; good people deserve to be hired based on their merits, regardless of whose colors they wear. But, I must believe, simply voting for a third party, regardless of which one, and ignoring the consequences to splitting the vote, is the wrong thing to do.

The movement to create and support a large third party continues to grow and gain steam. I think it will happen, eventually. But it can't happen in time for these elections, when we desperately need to pull together. Please think long and hard about this, before you cast your votes.

Answer 4

I want that too. The two party system doesnt work for me, as a person who votes on the issues and not the partyline. Also i think a third party would help keep the spending in check, cuz as much as the left and the right claim to hate each other they sure watch each others back when it comes to mis spending the american money.

Answer 5

I was a registered independant for years since 1978. I changed to democrat so I would be eligible to vote in local primaries..I truly hope for a viable 3rd party...for which I have voted in the past...until that day comes Vote wirth your heart and work for change...I am a huge letter writer and shockingly most of the pols I write sends me a letter in return. Establishing a 3rd party would take ALOT of money and enough people sick of this government to make it work

Answer 6

What in heaven's name are you doing on this forum with a sensible, well thought out and logical question like that????

Seriously, don't you find the dialog between the far right and the far left pretty amusing and entertaining? It might be a pretty dull forum without the 'Bush sucks' and the 'liberals are gay' input, don't you think?

It's the downright anti-American, pro-terrorist sympathizers that are somewhat unnerving at times. Hopefully, they're just trying to raise a few eyebrows and maximize the replies.

Answer 7

i'm agnostic, leaning probable in direction of atheist, and Iwould by no skill even carry it up if i did no longer ought to witness the wear and tear faith brings to the worldwide every time I turn on the information or see the way it helps buddies and kinfolk to proceed in vulnerable self rightious habit of their own lives. So, i attempt to be a voice of reason, yet i be attentive to this is many times a pointless excercise because of the fact that faith is a robust want for such many human beings and the common public are basicially intellectually disinterested and basically have faith regardless of they have been instructed to as a newborn. i think of the bickering comes from the unhappiness that those those that think of as adversarial to blindly believing and the phobia of dropping their crutch that the non secular experience whilst confronted. it is probable pointless to bicker, yet in specific cases it does relieve rigidity.

Answer 8

Fix the system. Then vote for one of the parties.

Currently, as implemented, the system is designed to exclude any but the two major parties. That needs to be fixed first.

Answer 9

Im not an independent, but I do get sick of the "choose sides" bickering I hear all the time!!

Answer 10

Yes, but there aren't enough of us to put candidates in office, so we're stuck voting for the lesser of two evils, or wasting our vote.