1995

our party

People decry the need for a third party in America; the two that we have now are not meeting our needs, caught up in petty squabbles and mindless one-upsmanship.

A third party will only further fragment this nation. Rather than asking the leaders we've elected to take responsibility, we would hurl them into even greater competition.

None of us is purely democrat or republican, liberal or conservative. These labels undermine our collective pursuit of the common good. We have institutionalized political civil war.

The call for a third party has come about because the Democrats and Republicans are moving closer and closer to one another - fiscal irresponsibility, social irresonsibility. Asking for a third voice in this cacophony of selfishness will only accelerate the greed and "gridlock" that has so paralized our politics. We will be adding a third voice to the chorus of "me me me" instead of acknowledging a collective "we".

Instead, let us have a single party in America, our party, the Let's Make America Better party. We all live here, we all want this country to be a better place. Either way the government implements a single policy, let's argue over it from an American betterment standpoint, not who has the upper hand in the budget bamboozelment.

Those issues that are too divisive for the party to agree upon, let us discuss them with reference to the common good and then turn them over to smaller groups; states or individuals.

We will vote for our representatives based on their morality, their recognition and achievement of the common good. This is what we do now, but we attempt to streamline the process by identifying them with flawed stereotyped belief systems. Party distinctions have become increasingly meaningless - what we crave is decent citizen leaders, regardless of membership or affiliation.

Extracting candidates from the vast pre-election party establishment poopla will open the field for citizen contenders, aligned with their communities. Without having to orient themselves with motheaten blanket philosophies, these folks will have stand on their actions, their intentions and their backgrounds. Independent honesty and potency over the lesser of two evils.

Neither the Democratic nor the Republican belief system offers the whole solution to our problems. A third party will only fragment the electorate and further democratic disintegration. Different people should still propose their different solutions, let them do so as individuals, or even better, as concerned community members, instead of as footsoldiers for obsolescent divisive bipolarity.

We all want the same thing.

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