The Current State Of Political Parties -- Part III
By Bill Burch
June 8, 2009

Independents and Minor Parties

"The failure of our country, the direction that we go as people, whether we move to meet the future or slide back into the irresponsible places of the past, will be determined by those who get involved." --Ronald Reagan

There is a tendency of many people to take an arrogant view towards politics. I've heard "I vote for the person, not the Party" more times than I can count. That comment works in a primary election, but not in a general election.

" If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify." --- Alexander Hamilton

How about this one, "I'm not voting for (Republican candidate) because he's not strong enough on (a conservative issue), so I'm not going to vote (this equals one vote for the Democrats if you voted Republican in the past), or I'm going to vote (some third party) (this equals one vote for the Democrats if you voted Republican in the past), or I'm going to vote Democrat (this equals two votes for the Democrats if you voted Republican in the past).

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The problem with the minor parties is that they do not have the funding or plan to win. For example, many people who vote and volunteer for Republicans actually consider themselves Libertarians. But the Libertarians have no plans or money to win elections. So they now consider themselves to be spoilers. The problem is that the Libertarians, who are generally conservatives, help elect Democrats (Marxist) in marginal areas who have nothing in common with the Libertarians.

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them". --Lily Tomlin

As messed up as the Republican Party is right now, at least they're not Marxist. Furthermore, none of the other parties are anywhere near as well financed or organized as the Republican Party.

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." --John Adams

The United States system is not a parlimentary system. Therefore, if you don't win a majority or at least a plurality, you get nothing. However, you don't even need a plurality to take over the leadership of one of the major parties. The Marxists know this. Even though, according to a Rasmussen Poll, only thirty-nine percent of the Democrats prefer socialism An even smaller number are the ones who actually engineered the takeover of the Democrat Party by the Marxist. If you really want to effect change then you need to get involved within one of the major parties and let your voice be heard.

"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "--Benjamin Franklin

And then there's the issue of the independents. You know, those who brag that they aren't going to support either party. Well, at least for the immediate future, it is still a semi-free country. I would like to give these people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they just don't know how to get involved.

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."--Thomas Jefferson

There are still many people alive today who have been and still are willing to put their lives on the line for our country. So each of us must ask ourselves, what have I done for my country? What can I do in this war against Marxism? The independent voters need to pick sides. If you are opposed to Marxism, then help the Republicans.

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." --George Washington

Sitting back, pointing fingers and shouting is not the way to save our country. Getting involved through political clubs, political parties, and helping candidates is.

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity. ---James Madison,

Now is the time to become involved. It may be that you become involved with the Democrats to pull them away from Marxism. It may be that you decide to help get the Republicans back on track. But whatever you do now is the time to do it. Your children and grandchildren need you to help, your country needs you to help, and you need you to help.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.----Thomas Paine

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Chairman of Grass Roots Institute of Texas (GRIT), Member of the American Mensa Society, Member of the American Legion, Past Public Director of the State Bar of Texas

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