A mere few days and the nation will have it say on who is to be president…..the problems this country is having goes back to the pathetic party system that we hold dear.

We all are well aware of just how divided the country is and that division is along political party lines. This system has held this country back for generations and made hatred and suspicion the norm for politics.

I do not expect many to agree with me on this for most Americans get their identities from their politics….

First the advantage…..

Political parties are essential institutions of democracy. By competing in elections parties offer citizens a choice in governance, and while in opposition they can hold governments accountable. When citizens join political parties, volunteer their time, donate money and vote for their leaders, they are exercising their basic democratic rights. Participation of citizens in political parties offers unique benefits, including opportunities to influence policy choices, choose and engage political leaders, and run for office.

Before I go any further…..when was the last time you influenced policies….how can it be so democratic when the only choices you have are the ones the system gives you?

Americans dislike and distrust our political parties; a mere 11% of Americans express high confidence in them when compared to many other institutions, reflecting their well-deserved reputation as a vulnerability to American democratic stability. And yet, parties are essential organizing institutions in any modern democracy. The size and complexity of the multiple levels of government in the United States and the diverse and distributed nature of the electorate necessitate organizations that can serve as the connective tissue of our politics and promote a multiracial, pluralistic democracy. Accordingly, “modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of the parties.”

Yet, there is a natural impulse to view the parties as the problem and seek to further weaken or even try to eliminate them from our politics completely. Despite the understandable frustration with our political parties and a historical context that includes their intentional exclusion from the Constitution, a variety of reforms that weakened parties over time have served only to exacerbate the problems we have today.

For a healthy democracy to function effectively, it needs political parties.

While there are many ways in which political parties contribute to stabilizing and bolstering democracy, the following are vital to sustaining a system that is representative, responsive, and resistant to authoritarian takeover.

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/why-do-we-need-political-parties/

Resistant to authoritarian takeover?

Then explain the GOP and its Project 2025.

Then what are the disadvantages?

A two-party system is a structure where two major political parties rule and dominate the government. Political parties are significant as they represent specific social, economic, and political issues within a given space of interest. They establish a philosophical platform linked to voters, aiming to facilitate the election of a specific candidate to public office.

Candidates aiming at public office use their individual party’s platform to share their concerns with voters. They also propose different strategies they’ve set in place to tackle these problems in case they’re elected to office. There are many disadvantages of the two-party system, and we’ll address some of them in this article.

Read the disadvantages!!!!!

https://goodparty.org/blog/article/disadvantages-of-the-two-party-system

The biggest problem for me is the promotion of centrism.    There was a time when it was a good thing but these days it is the kiss of death to our way of life.

I tend to agree with Jesse Ventura….”I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.”

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