Political parties are a nuisance to the American people and are in direct opposition to a functional, democratic state. Politicians are increasingly being over-ridden by the parties to which they belong. Politicians are constantly being subjected to ad hominem attacks based upon their party. Parties have reduced us to voting the way our parties desire rather than how WE desire. To quote the great George Washington, "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."



