Greetings

The Party system has failed.

It is not the first time. So, I invite you to consider an alternate mechanism for staffing the public offices of your local government. Nothing against the people that participate in the party system, the organizational structure and value system is simply not the right ones for the task at hand. Members tend to place Party over Country, bylaws over Constitution, ideology over common sense.

Our history has several instances of party infrastructure being taken over, forcefully, usually against the will of party leadership, particularly in times of dire emergency where the survival of our Republic was at stake.

Abraham Lincoln re-created the Republican Party in his image.
Franklin Roosevelt re-created the Democratic Party in his image.
John Kennedy re-created the Democratic Party in his image.
Donald Trump re-created the Republican Party in his image.
Who will re-create the Democratic Party in their image?

Parties have dominated the political arena since the times of George Washington, who warned in his farewell address that "the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."

Even today, the Party has a big influence on who is selected. They're big, have lots of money, host big conventions, and can mobilize volunteers all by reference to name, ideology, and beating the other party.

When I was running for office, I had many conversations that went like this:

Voter: "Are you Democrat or Republican?"
Me: "Republican"
Voter: "Nice. I'm voting for you!"
Me: "Why? You just met me, don't know anything about me, don't know my platform, or what I want to accomplish if elected."
Voter: "Any Republican is better than a Democrat. I'm tired of them."
Me: "That's part of the problem that caused this mess. Go research every question on your ballot."

Voting by letter next to name is a surefire formula for abject failure. As we clearly see today. A petty tyrant has no problem registering to the majority party in your area and speaking its language to get its endorsement. 

So, What's the solution? 

Won't any institution eventually become corrupted and fall apart? Does not absolute power corrupt absolutely?

Sure, that may all be true. But that does not prevent us from invention.

The United States of America was a new invention that made People, by law (aka on paper), the ultimate source of political power. 

A new invention is needed to make real that paper proclamation.

Let's chat.

-Arjun