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Platform - Strategy and Philosophy

An introduction to the 3rd party.

Who are we and why are we here?

Everybody has a theory about what is wrong with government. But most of the explanations for what’s wrong only illustrate a symptom and fail to address the root cause of what is wrong in American government today. The root cause is an overall lack of accountability.

The primary cause of this "lack of accountability" is a lack of viable alternative choices. If you want to institute good government, a government that addresses the needs of the nation over the needs of individual political parties, then you need to change the current two-party dynamic in Washington today. The problem is best put like this: somebody has to win, and in a contest between only two alternatives, it is always going to be the lesser of the two evils that will carry the day.

In a system that offers such a limited choice, voters are powerless to hold representatives accountable.

The solution is the creation of a viable third party. (That’s why we are called the The Third Party of America.)

Today’s Washington politicos behave in a partisan manor because they can get away with it. As far as they see it, the voter has no other choice but to vote for them or stay home because there is only one party that is liberal, and one that is conservative; one that is pro-war, and one that is against it; one party that wants to cut taxes for you and one that wants to cut taxes for the other guy. This is how the game is spun, and regardless of which party wins in any given year, it is the country as a whole that loses.

Today’s politicians put the party’s interests ahead of what is best for the nation as a whole because they can get away with it. What choice do we have? Right now, we have none, which is why we need a strong Third Party of America. Will you join us?

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