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Why doesnt the Tea Party become their own entity as a real political party instead of trying to achieve success by piggy backing on the Republican party?
Basically if you cant change the 2 party system its kinda pointless to endlessly whine about the issue,
Ultimately your only power is your vote every few years,if you dont like the party in power vote in the other one,if that doesnt happen at least respect the democratic system and the choice made by the voting majority.
Because the tea party was created and birthed by the Republican Party, big tobacco and the Koch heads.
I seem to remember last election when those of us who stated we would not vote for Romney nor that current clown in the WH, a slew of idiots on here told us that we were "throwing our votes away".
Now people want to talk about the tyranny.
I have a lot to say to people like that, but I will refrain since you, OP, were not one of them. For the rest of them who did say stupid crap like that: this is what you get.
Since the post Civil War era (aka post war of Yankee aggression) the two political parties that we know and love today have created a stranglehold on the electoral process.
When one reads the Constitution and then looks at the results of the first few Presidential elections, one realizes what the Founding Fathers intended. To whit, voters voted for the person they thought best qualified for President, and that the electors, following the wishes of the voters, chose the best qualified person as President, and the 2nd best qualified person as Vice President.
Different parties? Different political philosophies? So what?
Today, of course, we the people cannot vote based on our determination of best and next best. We are forced by the political parties to choose based on party, not qualification. This extendends down to even the municipal level, at least in the real big cities. Vote the party way, or shut up and go away. Real representative democracy, isnt it.
Funny how today there is a movement to eliminate the Electoral Collage. It's undemocratic, they say. Well, I contend that the two party system is undemocratic, because it forces We the People to choose only what the parties tell us we can choose. Eliminate the stranglehold of the two party system, I contend, and we will see more and better and more responsive democracy.
IMHO
I don't find the two party system so restrictive in our case. Because fortunately we have Democrats, making it a simple matter to identify candidates to avoid. That makes it easy to determine that the candidate without the D next to their name is the best candidate.
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