Enough is Enough: Has the Third Party’s Time Come?

Facebook ^ | Jan. 7, 2013 | Chuck Heath Jr.

[upsdriver]

This is an issue that I've been mulling over for quite a while. I wrote more about the way I'd set this up, but I wanted to get some of your feedback first. Let me know what you think.

Enough is Enough: Has the Third Party’s Time Come?

We’ve lost our way. The American political system is a mess. The divisiveness between Republicans and Democrats seems insurmountable and it’s getting worse every day. I could get into the reasons that this is happening, but I doubt that would change a thing.

It is very painful for me to see this country literally becoming unraveled at the seams… especially when I look at my own children’s future. I’ve watched friends and even family members break ties over political differences. I have watched good, smart people enter politics and seen them change for the worse over the years as they’ve become part of the political machine.

Political seniority often leads to leadership positions but has nothing to do with performance. Casting a favorable vote for something you may not even believe in, just to gain a committee chair or for some other future favor, is rampant in politics.

It’s a very dirty game and it’s the reason so many really talented people never get involved in it. It’s also the reason my sister Sarah Palin, has been so viciously attacked over the years. She refused to “play the game”. She has always stuck to her principles and because of that, she is viewed as a threat. I’ve watched people in both major parties do everything they can to demean and destroy her. And all for what… for trying to limit the size of government? For asking all of us to do our share? For insisting we spend less than we take in? For ending crony capitalism? For going above and beyond to support our military? For utilizing our natural resources in a responsible way? For praying? The list goes on.

Let’s face it. As it stands now, it’s impossible to be elected to a high national office without being a part of the Republican or Democratic Party. I propose that the disgruntled citizens of the United States… Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians… persons of every race, religion, economic status, and whoever else is interested, join together and form a new party. I’d simply call it, the American Party.

[Marcella]

“That’s kinda where I am at.”

You are a realist like I am. I can't fix this country, no one can at this point. The boundaries of my world are now my house, my small back yard, and my shopping street as long as my drug store across the street and the grocery store a couple of blocks away, still function and if I have to go for some reason, the doctor's office a few miles away.

When those stores and doctor's office stop functioning, my world boundary will shrink down to my house and back yard and it will all work just fine. Yours will, too. Due to these preps, I don't let Hussein and Biden bother my world. A pox on them.

[Friendofgeorge]

A sizable share of the American people are choosing evil over good, and this share is only getting larger by the day it seems.

I will go for a third party if it`s pro life on the platform. Libertarians will embrace a party that is NOT pro life.

According to polls (never a believer in polls, lacking science) people that call themselves Tea Party thought Romney was the best hope even before he was the only option, so not encouraged there

I suspect the days that a political party is going to be any answer may be gone

Look to the sky, look to the Lord Jesus, the Rapture may be very very close

[upsdriver]

Romney dissed Sarah Palin, social conservatives and the tea party grassroots. I believe that cost him the election.

I’m with you that any conservative party arising from the ashes has got to have a moral underpinning. Any party that embraces the founding documents has got to be solidly pro-life. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness includes the unborn child.

[Friendofgeorge]

agreed!