Patriot Party filing? Is this real?
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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.