What were The Founders thinking? Part 2 .

     You won't find anything in The Constitution that states that there is supposed to be two exclusive political parties battling to run our government. It just "evolved" that way.

     There were many parties formed by like-minded people to address issues that were of concern as our country developed. Whigs, Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, even (Former Republican) Teddy Roosevelt's Bull-Moose Party (which evolved into the Progressive Movement- that "continuing nightmare" is for another post...later) came and went. But what happened was that the two parties, that we are stuck with now, got together, in the shadows, and rigged our political system to shut out any 3rd party from ever getting a real shot of winning a major election.

     I don't really see much difference between today's Democrats and Republicans, they both want to stick their noses in and control where government has no business intruding.
    To see how I got to this point, here's my history of party membership:

• 1980 - Registered Republican & voted for Ronald Reagan from the American Consulate in New Zealand.
• 1982/83 - Voted generally Republican in minor elections.
  
• 1984- Still registered Republican & voted for Reagan again.
• 1985/87 - Yeah, Republican still.
• 1988 - Republican, voted for Bob Dole in primary election. Was very disappointed that Geo. H.W. Bush was the Republican candidate. Became aware of the Libertarian Party, but Ron Paul seemed a little weird, and didn't want to "throw-away" my vote, so I held my nose and voted for Bush, just to keep Dukakis out.
  
• 1990 - Registered Democrat to participate in California primary elections to get a particular candidate I knew to run against John Garamendi, who was "out to get" chiropractors as the first California Insurance Commissioner.
• 1991 - Registered Independant for minor elections.
• 1992 - Still Independant, voted for Ross Perot, even though his flakiness by getting out then getting back in was strange.
• 1993/95 - Decided to be permanently Independant.
• 1996 - Voted again for Ross Perot. Figured since I was now living in Republican Utah voting for Perot was symbolic.
• 1997/99 - Independent, voted generally Republican, what else was there?
• 2000 - Voted Libertarian, even after watching Libertarian Convention on C-Span, attendees were goofy but I liked what Harry Browne had to say as Presidential Candidate.
• 2001/3 - Minor elections in Utah, might as well encourage the Libertarians, the Republican always wins in Utah County, especially.
• 2004 - Even though I've thought Kerry was one of the world's biggest weenies since seeing him testify in front of congress back in the early 70's, I didn't vote for Bush Junior for re-election I just voted for the Libertarian, whoever that was. The Electoral College system really bugs me, I'm in Utah, of course Bush will take the state.
  
• 2005/07 - Didn't vote.
• 2008 - Voted for School Vouchers in Utah, was amazed at the gullibility of the voters who believed the Teachers Union schpeel to defeat it. Voted Libertarian for President again, whoever that was. McCain lost me with amnesty for illegals and signing on with TARP. Even though I thought it would be cool to have either a woman or a black person as President, just not Hillary or Obama.

     So, having lain out my history regarding elections, perhaps you can see where I'm coming from in this next thought of mine.

     I don't care what they call it, Libertarian, Constitutional, Fiscal Conservative, Reform...whatever.
I would like to see a new party, or the renewal of an existing party, that has it's beginnings with a massive defection from both of the corrupt national parties in power, with sitting members of congress, governors and state legislators to a party that is willing to unwind the tangled web of unconstitutional power-grabs, entitlements and self-destructive policies that have slowly crept into our government since the beginning of what is known as the "Progressive-era" and quit trying to tell people how to live their personal lives. We need to get back to The Constitution and start hacking away at the cancer of Big Government and social engineering. If we can do it, I believe, the rest of the free-world will follow.
     We haven't been following the constitution for the past 100 hundred years, let's  try that for "a change we can believe in?"