LPA: What have the two major political parties done for you lately? The Republicans (with help from the Democrats) have gotten us into a mess in the middle east that has made our country seem a little like the Third Reich, and the Democrats haven’t done a damn thing, except sit there and watch a right wing fundamentalist conservative wiretap American citizens and deliver “signing statements” that allow him to ignore any law passed that he doesn’t want to subscribe too. We have seen the country ignore our citizens along the gulf coast that were devastated by a tremendous hurricane, we have seen the oil companies make record profits while Americans pay over $3.00 a gallon for fuel, and we have seen our basic freedoms become eroded by the “Patriot Act” that is definitely not an act written by anyone I would call a patriot.
So we have seen a needless war, our basic rights curtailed, CIA spies outed by their own government for political purposes, and what has the opposition party done? Nothing of any consequence. It is hardly surprising since they are all cut from the same cloth. Most of them are wealthy, many are attorneys, and you can’t tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat without a D or an R under their names on the television screen. I don’t know about you, but people that I know are more than just a little sick of government run by the latest popularity poll.
I was a Democrat. I was a Democrat when being a Democrat meant something. I saw Al Gore turn his back on Bill Clinton and tried to run on that wonderful personality that he cultivated while Vice President. I was not surprised when he lost to a neocon from Texas in a stolen election while winning the popular vote. Why he turned his back on the man who had the highest approval ratings of any President is beyond me. These are the same Democrats that let George W. Bush send our youth off to a war nobody wanted or understood. They still don’t do anything about it.
There are a few good Democrats, just as there are a few good Republicans. I empathize the word few. We will be looking at the records of the politicians running for office, and we are going to be very vocal about whom we support and whom we don’t, and why. This is a heads-up to people that believe that it’s going to be business as usual. We didn’t start this party just to write articles and bemoan the plight of American politics. We are asking the citizen’s from all parties for your support. We intend to make a difference in the years to come. We are The Liberal Party of America. We believe that Liberal Values are American values. We don’t believe that liberal is a word to run away from. We don’t believe that the two political parties are too much different from each other, although they would like you to believe it. We want our country to be governed by statesmen, not politicians that change their views with the latest poll.
Come and help us deliver our government back to the people, and take it out of the hands of political machines. Give us your feedback and help us to become the watchdog of American politics. If we can’t find someone to endorse, give us the power to run our own candidates. This country needs a fresh new political party. Go to our website at liberalpartyamerica.org and read our platform. Read our unofficial blog at liberalpro.blogspot.com to better understand our views. Become part of the solution, and let us together, rid ourselves of the problem. The problem is our two party system the way it stands. We have to have an alternative. We are the alternative. We are the party that subscribes to Jefferson, MLK, JFK, Adlai Stevenson, and all the other statesmen that called themselves LIBERAL. Help us to bring America back to the international community of nations. Help us to make the U.S.A. a country that you can be proud of.