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Defining government by two separate ideologies is silly and a poor way for us to organize on every issue. Sure, if it comes to the high school pep rally of government issues, it’s good to have a side. I’m blue- you’re red. You’re a donkey- I’m an elephant. I want big government and you want DC to be an agrarian commune with a population of 98. You claim FDR and I somehow claim Lincoln even though I know 100 percent he would hate my party today. These are all great marketing tools and are the kind that keep us buying Coke over Pepsi, but it’s a poor way to establish voting coalitions.

As an independent I am beholden to no larger vision for winning power across the entirety of the country. Thus, I am free to gain more power as both parties would want me to caucus with their voting bloc, and unlike freshman congresspeople that win their seat because of their party’s money, my personal agenda gains more influence as I can leverage my independent status in a closely divided party congress. Thus, this grand vision that I am putting to you on this site may actually find some traction in legislation, and Colorado’s place in the process becomes more powerful. The ability to inject the civility and efficiency we have today on the state level can trickle up into the federal legislature. 

The parties are flawed as they play both sides against their middles, thus nothing currently gets done. No consensus can form as the drivers of both parties now are their extremes- and we become more entrenched in party dogma and hate for the “other side”. A true independent, such as myself (though I may approve of others) has the ability to rejoin the middles of both parties to form a larger coalition to attack the sides. Because of the current make up of fundraising for Congress, this can never logically happen, as the great generators of contribution now are either love of one party’s ideals and, I believe, the larger motivator of abhorrence of the other party’s ideals. So, the middle portion of either of these parties has no real ability to properly govern because they need to keep their extremes vocal to pay for their election campaigns. 

Thus, here we are today, and every year the Congress sets new records for inefficient legislation and our government is funded by ever updated continuing resolutions. An independent to bring these middles together and show that good ideas can bring contributions, though this will show unnecessary as a winning independent will also illustrate that good ideas can win elections, making contributions irrelevant. The great compromises that the two-party system once achieved for this country are dead- only a person not indebted to these parties can bring back an era of intelligent, well-balanced, long-lasting policy.