Conservative Liberal

          I really dislike current politics. I think that I am in the vast majority of people who do not fit into a political party. I have my beliefs, you have your beliefs, every person on this planet has their beliefs. I am not going to knock anyone's beliefs........in this post. That said, political parties have ruined the democratic system.
        I am currently referring to myself as conservative liberal, as I am clearly not green party but I have many points that fit firmly in both the democratic and republican parties.  Where is my candidate? Quite frankly, I don't have one. When I vote, I am typically voting for the "lesser of all evils," because I don't believe either party will offer what I want, an I definitely don't feel any current politician has the welfare of the American population anywhere on their radar.
         Why on earth does anyone vote for someone who is spending millions of dollars to get elected. It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. They are up front to your face telling you that I am buying my way into office, and than you have to turn around and say where is this money coming from, and do we want to truly believe that it is given without expectation to reciprocate. Why do we allow his to happen? and buy into the party system year after year.
           Under this system deals are being made. I voted for candidate A because he belived in 1234 but the rest of his party believes in 123D. In order to get party support candidat promises the party that he will support D over 4 even though his history is to support 4. In this case you ar not getting hat you are voting for. Another common situation is compromise, and blackmail. Party A wants to pass an education bill. Party B has nothing against the education bill but they rally need this social service bill passed. They blackmail party A saying everyone in party B will vote against your education bill unless everyone in party A votes for party B's social service bill. Everyone "wins" while at the same time everyone loses. Adversely, if they are not willing to "compromise" some very much needed and universally supported bills get turned down in a senate lock-down. This is the same reason that every politician looks like a liar.
           How do we fix this? Historically, a third party is created that actively completed with the leading two parties and begins to dominate. As a result the other two change and adapt, one will fail and on will succeed. This resets the system and buys a few dozen years of.....more honest politics. What we really need is real change, and that starts from the very bottom. We need good honest people to run for office, ones who will not compromise their view. If we vote for the people who closest match out views, and those people do not stray from thier own views, we get fairly represented.
           Things I do like about our system is the way we have a split congress, one represented by population and one represented by location. It spreads out the weight and really gives the closest thing to fair representation to all. For now I will continue to be a conservative liberal, and vote on specific initiatives while waiting for a real candidate to represent me.
Akiero