Patriot Party filing? Is this real?
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I don't care what name they slap on it, I won't ever be party to a Party, period. Have we learned nothing? Why have any parties at all? Can't individuals run on their own merit?
I won't ever donate to a party, but I will to the individual's campaign, but if it goes through a system where the money actually goes to the party, then I won't.
I trust no body of bureaucrats and see no reason to start. And I wouldn't trust one simply because it has a friendly name to it either.
I vote for the individual, not the party, period.
ps. Before anybody says it helps to quickly identify where they stand on key issues, people lie, and they use party slogans to manipulate and make it SEEM as if they are those things, then they betray those very things. I will not be manipulated by people because they claim to be a member of the "patriot party" but turn out to be just another politician, instead taking advantage of the party name that automatically gives people the impression that they're a patriot.
I know it sounds good, but we need to move away from the idea of political parties altogether, just look at what it's always lead to. People are no longer voting based on principles, but on their "team" winning, and I guarantee if we brought parties back it would just happen again, as it always does.
Parties sow division, the opposite of what we want! If one runs on one's merit and one's own character, then we shall judge them on their character. If one runs on the merits of a party, then we pay much less attention to their own character, but on slogans and statements of a collective instead.
Right, but people will always band up. Right now an endorsement from Trump will automatically get a good number of votes. This puts you at an advantage over someone one that might might actually appeal to those voters more but don't have Trumps endorsement. The founders were clear on the danger of parties too, but it only took a few years before parties had formed up. It's just the realization that groups are more effective than individuals.
We also have the internet and social media now, an even better and more effective way to band together, with less chances of it being corrupted.
All I know is that I myself will never trust a party, period.
Like power, parties also have an inherent corruption about them. It corrupts the actual political integrity of not just the elections/voters (manipulations due to party affiliations etc), but the party members will then also go about corrupting their own integrity, for the Party (leaders/bureaucrats) will eventually start "persuading" them to do "this" or "that."
Banding together is one thing; giving money, power, and influence over to a body of bureaucrats is not the way to do it, imho.
I don't think you are wrong. Parties corrupt because they increase power, and where power is increased someone will show up to claim that power.
I'm not trying to talk you into joining a party, just that the reality of the situation is that there will always be political parties, and any system needs to account for that.
You're probably right, and I guess we'll just have to see how it works in the new system once this one is finished being taken down.