I have been watching, as most americans, how the two dominate political parties have bungled the stimulus situation. Each side placing conditions on the agreement that the other side will not agree to and playing politics with the peoples lives. So I personally would like to see every congressman running for re-election to be replaced. However it makes no sense replacing them with more of the same. I therefore make the suggestion that they be replaced with someone from the Independent Political Party.
Imagin if just 10% of each house of congress were replaced with independent canidates. This would create a whole new ball game in congress. Party lines and idealology would be completely disrupted. No more us against them, it would be us against them against those guys. Both major parties would not only have to negotiate with each other but also with the new guys. If the independent party could be more beholding to the voters, congress would once again be at the whim of the people.
This is my first post, but I will voice more ideas in an attempt to inspire thinking outside of the box. Feel free to respond. I more than welcome your thoughts and ideas, be it supportive or not. I just ask that your comments be constructive.
Thanks for reading.
I don't want to dump on your rookie effort, but this isn't all that "outside the box". People have been saying the exact same thing, in almost the exact same words, about "we need a third party" since forever. Thing is, what you say and how you say it - like all those other times - makes me wonder if you understand how political parties work. They aren't set into place and assigned power, significance, and number of elected officeholders by some grand, overarching authority, you know. The Democrats and Republicans, whatever else you can say about them, put in the work necessary to get people to support them and their candidates and view them as legitimate when they started and for a long time afterward. If the Independent Party, or any of the other myriad start-up parties out there, want to be viewed as a serious national third party, then they're going to have to do the same work, not just demand that it be handed to them "for the good of the nation".
I notice that this is the tack you used, and you didn't actually say a word about any actual candidates for that party, or why they as individuals deserved to be elected to office. That isn't how the system works.