LPA: I've been asked by a few well-intentioned people, why are we starting a new political party? They have told me that we have enough political parties in America, and anyway, there are only two that really have a chance of getting a candidate elected.
If you think in terms of today only, then they are right, but the world, or even this country, doesn't only live for today. Hopefully it lives for tommorrow, next month, next year, and god-willing, longer than that. Time changes things, changes people, I know that it has changed me. I'm not the man I was ten, even five years ago, maybe I'm different than I was yesterday. What is the old maxim? "Time waits for no one?" I believe that. I also believe that time waits for no political party. The parties either change with the times, or they will be vanquished to the ash heap of history.
Look at the political parties that have come and gone in our country. We had Federalists, Whigs, Tories, Democrat-Republicans, Bull Mooses. We still have over twenty different political parties right now, and, more than likely, a thousand others that people have never heard of. They come and they go. Those that don't catch the spirit of the people, go by the wayside. The biggest downfall of a political party though, is when they try to be all things to all people. When a political party does that, they lose their identity.
That is what has happened to the Democratic Party. In this period of America's history, you can't tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat except for the backround colors they use on their political posters. A Republican is red, and a Democrat is blue. That's it, that is the whole difference, the whole magilla as they say. You can listen for hours to a politician making a speech, and at the end of the speech, a coin toss would be a better indicator of which political party he or she belongs to than trying to equate what they said to any party platform. I believe that the major parties should just join forces and go back to being Democrat-Republicans. The only difference between the parties are the personalities.
If the only difference between the parties are personalities, then a presidential race is more akin to electing a prom king or queen that the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. We might be better off if we made the elections a reality show and gave them chores to do, with the best candidates winning the election. I have actually heard from people that they voted for George Bush because he had a nicer smile than John Kerry. I think that the smile was so important because the election had no real substance. During the debates, the two actually agreed with each other, more than they differed. That meant that the American people really didn't have much of a choice. Both men had nothing in common with the average American citizen that works from paycheck to paycheck. Why should they? The elections are financed by people with exactly the same backrounds as the candidates. People that are so far removed from the working class American that it's almost an event when they actually have to interface with a common working man.
Who let this happen? We all did. We let the Democratic Party go from being the party of the people, to the party of the dissillusioned rich. Unions have become big business themselves. Politicians have become celebraties, and government has become a way to pay off your richest benefactors from the sweat of the working class. Who represents the working class in the United States? Until November 15th, 2005 nobody did. Now we do. The Liberal Party of America. That is our promise. We will keep our promise. It is the only right thing to do. Help us restore a representative government to The United States of America.
We don't want your money. We want your time. We want you to think about what we are saying. The money part comes later, if we ever get into a position to field a candidate and win. Right now, we need to put the Democratic Party on notice. We need to tell the republican Party that there is now a mainstream party that gives people with liberal ideas a choice, instead of listening to the conservative hate mongering that we have been listening to for the last twenty years.
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