New Political Party

[Kat Kanning]

Run candidates on the Kindergarden platform in the Free State Party?

[liftsboxes]

Something like that ... I think that the Kindergarten principles could be a good way to explain the platform of Libertarianism.

[Free libertarian]

Lloyd likes the nap part 

HEY...I was gonna say that! 

[dalebert]

Naps are under-rated.

[David]

Naps are under-rated.

I have been trying to intentionally take one on my days off for the past few weeks.   

[lildog]

Personally I think we'd be better off without parties at all.

All we see at top levels of politics are people supporting parties without really looking at the people themselves.

Democrats blindly support Obama even though he doesn't represent the things they claim to support.

Republicans blindly supported Bush even though he was about as far from what Republicans claim to support as you can get.

If there were no parties people would need to look closer at the person running rather then simply assume based on the party they have next to their name.

Of course as Obama is proving, people are also fooled by slick talking politicians.  Obama has talked a good game but hasn't done any of the things he's claimed he would yet people honestly believe he has and is.

[dalebert]

The way our system is set up, it's inevitable to have two dominant parties. Imagine it's like a mold that you pour politics into and it's always going to take the same shape. Experts have written research papers on it and it makes sense.

It's a natural occurrence, in order to win in a straight-up majority wins all situation for opponents to team up. Smaller parties merge with larger ones or else members of smaller parties bleed off and join larger ones for a chance to win. There are European systems that have many parties but that's because it's not winner-take-all. They've set it up so if you win some reasonable portion, then you have some power, just not as much as whoever got more votes.