What’s so special about republicans and democrats?

Nothing!

Both represent the status quo that has gotten us to the point we are at today. Most voters are unhappy with how things are today. And these parties’s existence today is not all that long, like maybe eight or more decades. They are not even mentioned in the Constitution or in people’s thoughts at our startup. We had other parties at our startup. Even today more voters call themselves independents vice republican or democrat. Like a tick well dug into our skin, both parties are so well dug into America’s “skin”, that any American with political ambitions from the local to federal levels must go through one of the two party wickets…because they say we have to. Maybe some of today’s party leaders have forgotten the history and startup reasons for their party. If this sounds like unions and union leadership, so be it. When one thinks about this, the two national parties “raison d'être” is closer to unions than one might care to admit.

America has a love affair with third political parties. Generally, they are thought to be a waste of voter time, though they and the candidates do send a message. Every once in a while they become a new national party, usually on the backs on the old status quo. And also every so often, they even change elections results. Many think Clinton became President in 1992 because of candidate’s Perot’s efforts, as an example. Add in George Wallace in 1968 and John Anderson in 1980 as examples of other efforts.

Times are different these days. While the present candidates for federal President seem stuck in their own parties routines, most voters are not similarly stuck. Does it still bother so many Americans that so much donated cash is being raised for candidates and sometimes through their own parties. Are the donors donating cash for nothing in expected return?

A key point is that the USA, America, is special. And no amount of republican or democratic party efforts can change that. So go independents!