A few days ago Jesse Ventura was on the Michael Medved show promoting his new book. His theme was that the two party system is so broken, that the party system must be eliminated. He would help bring about this change, by legislating that no political label would be attached officially to the name of each candidate printed on the voting ballot.
I am an anarchist and individualist, but I criticize Ventura's solution as likely to lead to the rise of a myriad of small parties, resulting the balkanization of our united people, chaos, disunity and an inability to govern, not unlike what frequently occurs under the Italian parliamentary democracy.
Let the Republicans be the conservatives and the Democrats be the Liberals. People can work within those labels and parties to advance their platform and issues. If each citizen is totally politically aware and involved, the these traditional party labels suffice. Compromise will reign and whoever is in the majority for that period of years will predominate.
Changing the label is not the answer. Changing the heart, commitment and level of participation of each citizen is what counts, and nothing substituting this will help or matter in the long run.
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