“Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks is woefully underfunded compared to her main competitors in California’s 26th District primary. An independent, she doesn’t have a party apparatus or a natural donor base to.
Partisan gridlock happens because Congress manages too many aspects of our lives. Americans will never agree on everything, but they don’t have to unless their decisions are centralized and made.
There’s a tendency to view independent voters as being in the middle. That’s not who they are at all. In fact, the philosophical spectrum of independents is broader than that.
The reason for the focus on Dr. Paul is because his bid acts as a textbook example of how an insurgent candidacy successfully challenges party establishment.Kymberly Bays, on the GOP.
So it’s crucial to bolster the men and women of courage in politics: the ones who can act as ambassadors between these increasingly dug-in parties and who can kindle that.
As each of the parties has moved toward ideological purity, our politics have become ever more polarized, our governing ever more paralyzed. Extremists increasingly run the show.-David Gergen, CNN Senior.
Trying to work within the two-party system to end the wars is futile. We need independent movements and voting blocs that can bring real pressure upon our government to end.
