We the People is Non-Partisan

“We the people” is non-partisan. It may be boring to the news media, but non-partisanship is the peaceful, common sense method of moving this nation forward through elimination of waste in centralized government. The news media and majority of elected officials today talk about “reaching across the aisle” and getting things done in a bi-partisan manner. Since when did we ever have a two (bi) party system? If that were the case, then how did Jesse Ventura become Governor of Minnesota? Al Franken would almost certainly never have become Senator from Minnesota without Dean Barkley’s participation in that race. Nor would Joe Lieberman still be in the Senate. Together, we ARE the People, and WE need to be non-partisan in our approach to fixing our centralized government.

I believe that party affiliation should be removed from election ballots so that voters will only vote for someone if they know what they stand for. Fewer votes would be cast, but they would be informed votes – ones that stand for a belief instead of a red or blue color on a map and ones that were cast independently of anyone dictating the vote of another citizen. What is wrong with a candidate describing him or her self as financially conservative, militarily moderate, educationally progressive and moderate on healthcare? That description is not reflective of any party I know of, but would make for an interesting candidate. Would it not be better than a party affiliation label? It would enable legislation representing the will of the people instead of strong-arm political pressure on elected officials to vote a certain way due to a party affiliation.

Let’s face it – a party affiliation is nothing more than an endorsement by a political union. In exchange for the support of a large body of voters, a politician accepts endorsement by a political union to be THEIR representative in Washington (or wherever), not the representative of the constituents of the district, state or whatever. Why do I believe this? Simply because each legislative body has majority and minority party bosses. These bosses, as the title implies, boss around their party endorsees to comply with the will of their party – not their constituents. Candidates do not have other union endorsements under their names on the election ballots, so why are they labeled with political unions?

Each and every one of you reading this has, or knows of someone who has, voted straight party on a ballot. How incredibly improper and unfair to America, not to mention future generations. Look at the mess that has been created in every legislative body in the country as a result. This is a national embarrassment. Who among us has the will to change it? Is it you?