text: The answer is that we do away with the party system ALTOGETHER and create an Independent political system. As long as America takes its "team mentality" from the sports field into the political arena and votes based on a "label", this country can only go even further down than it already is. When people start voting issues instead of party affiliation, candidate popularity contests, or advertising dollars, we can reclaim this country with leaders of fairness and a vision for the true equality of ALL Americans.\n\nOur votes are stolen (See 2000 and 2004 elections), the elected officials care more about "job security" than their constituents (government was to be "service" NOT a career path!), and "We The People" suffer in the long haul. Don't cross party lines to vote--BE INDEPENDENT and vote the issues close to and for the good of "normal" Americans.