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Has anyone ever wondered what things would be like if an independent got elected president of the U.S? How would the two parties deal with this president and vice versa?
Has anyone ever wondered what things would be like if an independent got elected president of the U.S? How would the two parties deal with this president and vice versa?
Nothing would get done because he could never gather enough support for anything to pass.
What's needed first, before an Independent party President, would be to elect a number of Independents to the House and the Senate.
Then, once that is done, Independents can start to get involved with the writing of various pieces of legislation that would reflect certain common sense solutions.
Independents, by and large, have got the cart before the horse, in so many ways, in that, it is the House and the Senate, not the Presidency, that holds all the cards on *power and *change.
If enough Independent Reps were voted into DC, it wouldn't make much of a difference what party affiliation the President was, because most, or all, legislation coming across his desk would, eventually, be of an Independent party nature.
In the beginning, those who would be voted in to office, House or Senate, would be considered swing votes. But as time went on, and as more and more Independents were voted in, their swing vote status would disappear and we would begin to hear more about the *Independent vote, as opposed to the Democrat or Republican vote.
During the swing vote years, I can see the Independent party taking the cream off of the top of all of what might be good in the other two parties .. then, incorporating that with several other very good Independent party proposals and ideas.
Politics, most often, starts at home. With voters putting their Independent party guy or gal, into office in DC ... Then, and only then, would we begin to see a shift in how DC works.
Has anyone ever wondered what things would be like if an independent got elected president of the U.S? How would the two parties deal with this president and vice versa?
First we need one that is worth something to vote for, so far I have not seen any
If any independent was popular enough to be President he/she would be swallowed up by one of the two political parties. The U.S. political system is a TWO party system.
What's needed first, before an Independent party President, would be to elect a number of Independents to the House and the Senate.
You hit the nail on the head and also layout the basis for every failure of every "third party" movement. Instead of actually building a real political base we are treated every couple of years to a vanity campaign by the Naders, the Pauls, the Perots who jump on the national stage but aren't willing to do the scut work of actually building a political movement or party.
More likely would be that enough Independent Senators were elected that the major parties no longer held a majority. The number of Registered Republicans is already smaller than Registered Independents.
Has anyone ever wondered what things would be like if an independent got elected president of the U.S?
There'd be snowball fights in Hell.
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