http://www.bloggernews.net/122145 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/122145#comment-1402881 rbwinn Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:08:21 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/122145#comment-1402881 Independent voters exist in the United States because originally all voters in the United States were independent voters. There were no organized political parties in the United States until the election of 1800, when a political party started by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison took over the United States government, starting the two-party corruption that dominates American politics today. Independent voters are what remains of the electoral system established by the writing and adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Independent candidates like George Washington had been were prevented from being elected to high office after 1800 by the fact that political parties collected contributions from the citizens after the manner of Protestant churches which were used to pay newspapers for exclusive promotion of party candidates. Independent voters had no means of making their candidacies known to the public after 1800 in any way that could compete with the party propaganda that political parties could purchase for their candidates. Independent voters need to go back to square one and declare candidacy for the right reason, registration of voters, and become candidates who solicit no contributions, make no expenditures, seek no publicity, and have no expectation of being elected, but who register as many voters as they can. Independent voters now outnumber Democrats for the first time since 1800. They need to become candidates for office, not to get votes, which they will do, but to register voters. It is time to leave these two corrupt major parties behind. Independent voters exist in the United States because originally all voters in the United States were independent voters. There were no organized political parties in the United States until the election of 1800, when a political party started by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison took over the United States government, starting the two-party corruption that dominates American politics today.
Independent voters are what remains of the electoral system established by the writing and adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Independent candidates like George Washington had been were prevented from being elected to high office after 1800 by the fact that political parties collected contributions from the citizens after the manner of Protestant churches which were used to pay newspapers for exclusive promotion of party candidates. Independent voters had no means of making their candidacies known to the public after 1800 in any way that could compete with the party propaganda that political parties could purchase for their candidates.
Independent voters need to go back to square one and declare candidacy for the right reason, registration of voters, and become candidates who solicit no contributions, make no expenditures, seek no publicity, and have no expectation of being elected, but who register as many voters as they can. Independent voters now outnumber Democrats for the first time since 1800. They need to become candidates for office, not to get votes, which they will do, but to register voters. It is time to leave these two corrupt major parties behind.

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