Democracy: Two-party system fosters suppression

Impeachment theater doesn’t interest me. If President Trump is impeached, let it be in the court of public opinion, the election, not in congressional hearings where Democrats and Republicans do nothing but preach hate for each other.

The real impeachable offense is to brainwash Americans into believing that our two-party system is a democracy. Either-Or is not a choice but a form of mind control.

Democratic and Republican elites suppress third-party independent voices. This system is neither in our Constitution nor in the vision of our nation’s founders.

John Adams wrote: “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties ((Letter to J. Jackson, 10/2/1780).”

In his 1796 farewell address to Congress, George Washington warned against forming any political parties at all, for they “become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, unprincipled men subvert the power of the people and usurp for themselves the reins of government.”

Healthy democracy has three elements: independent voices, public financing of elections, and the freedom to vote for persons, not parties.

We will have a democracy only by abolishing the DNC and the RNC, and letting the people choose a president.

This story was originally published December 26, 2019 at 5:07 PM with the headline "Democracy: Two-party system fosters suppression."