[Twoller]

Who says we need political parties at all? There is nothing in our system of government that requires political parties. We simply have the right to form associations based on political orientation. It is a freedom, not necessity.

The most important thing we need to do now to confront the "two party system", and make no mistake about it, there are people who insist this is a real system, is to get rid of the primaries.

The primary elections like we see cominig up this June are run for the benefit of the political parties, paid for by the public. We don't need political parties and we should be under no obligation to run their elections. It isn't even necessary that political parties have elections at all. Political parties are free to nominate who they want for an office any way they want to. Political parties are private organizations, not subject to the rules of government provided by the constitution.

One of the ways we can get rid of the primaries is to declare it unconstitutional to ask somebody registering to vote what their political party is. It is none of any of any part of government in the US's business to ask what your political party is. The only justification there is for asking is to provide information for running the primaries. That's it. Remove party registration with voter registration and the primary elections have nothing to work with. They could no longer know at the polls, like they do now, what your political party is.