American Independents

Find candidates you wish to support.

Browse all candidates.

Search geographically.

Search by office sought.

etc...

(If this wasn't just a prototype, there would be a search form here).

Why vote for an independent candidate?

Let's face it, the republicans and democrats have worked their way down to negative credibility. We have to try something else, or we all fall into the classic definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

This web site was created following the artifical debt limit crisis of 2011 where democrats and republicans finally reached the lowest point in history (at that point, it seems certain they will eventually go even lower).

The hope is that this site can help promote independent candidates who have not sacrificed any portion of their brains to mindless dogma or pledges to behave robotically rather than applying their powers of human reason on behalf of their constituents.

Should any of the independent candidates actually gain some measure of success via the support provided here, you will no doubt be lectured about how the independent stands no chance and will draw votes away from the saint and let the devil win the election.

Just remember that you won't get anything different from either the saint or the devil, but you just might get change with the independent, and if everyone remembers that, the independent will draw enough votes from both the saint and the devil to actually win.

Hopefully, in the future, children will come home after a history class and ask their parents what republicans and democrats were. Our goal is to replace all democrats and rebublicans at every level of elected office and permanently relegate them to the dustbin of history.

If this wasn't a prototype, this would bring up a link where you could submit ideas about how to do things. Ideas you hope candidates might steal (or your own ideas if you happen to be a candidate).

You could also browse ideas looking for ones you like and rating them, as well as find candidates who like the same ideas you like.

In a perfect world it would be a really nifty forum where it is possible to let good ideas to bubble to the top and let all the hate and name calling drift down to the bottom and be ignored (just not sure how to achieve that, heck maybe that sort of thing is what google+ circles can do?).

Here is where we need to have a form for voters to provide feedback for ideas to improve the web site, or describe things that aren't working right for them.

Here will be the form candidates use to register with the web site, point to their own official website, say which office they are running for, when the election takes place, etc.

Why should you run as an independent rather than a democrat or republican?

I remember Mikhail Gorbachev on his speaking tour after the fall of the Soviet Union. He would talk about how he still believed in the Communist party, how it merely needed to be brushed up a little and get a lick of paint, and it would be good as new.

I thought that self delusion was one of the saddest things I ever heard.

After the last few decades of performance from the republicans and democrats, shame should be the only proper reaction to wearing those party labels. An entirely artifical debt limit crisis was genned up in 2011, all in the name of blind ideological purity. This purity only cost everyone's retirement funds billions in stock market losses, with more billions to come as America's credit rating is trashed.

The credibility of the democrats and republicans now stands no higher than the communist party of the old Soviet Union.

The fact that there are politicians who are still proud to wear the republican or democrat label is a testament to more sad, shameful delusion. It is time to discard party labels, grow up, and stop letting dogma get in the way of applying intelligence to solve problems and make America great.

Here should be the form for candidates to give feedback about this web site, and how it can do more for them.

In the long run we'll need a way for independents to learn what works and what doesn't work when running as an independent. One good feature might be a candidate blog where candidates can tell us about their experiences.

Not sure how to compile it, but it would sure be useful to have links to reference material on campaign regulations, etc.

OK, there is no us really (maybe there will be someday). I'm just little ol’ computer programmer Tom Horsley who is disgusted with all the political parties and is taking a shot at presenting a prototype of a web site that I hope can be gotten off the ground to try and eradicate the disaster that political parties have become.

Since I know computers and not politics, I figured my best shot was to take a computer approach (but I sure hope I can get someone to steal this concept and run with it, since I certainly don't have the time or energy to do the kind of administration and fund raising a real site like this would require).

This concept for this site was stolen from ILoveSchools.com

Put nice site map here.

News clippings about independent candidates would be a nice feature to have on the site.

Historical articles documenting the follies of the democrats and republicans over the years to remind folks why they should vote independent.

It takes money to run this web site. Here is where we beg for donations.

Maybe folks who won't donate outright might want to buy stuff like bumper stickers, coffee mugs, framed political cartoons, T-shirts, etc.

We should have a gallery where people can donate their own political cartoons, campaign songs, animations, etc.

Odds are good that the Federal Election Commission will come up with some reason to call this website illegal. Anyone know a good election law expert who could volunteer to help?

What if we moved the whole web site operation out of the country (a bit ironic)? Would it be able to operate then?

Should this site become successful and actually pose a threat to the entrenched republican and democratic parties, I'm sure sanctioned or unsanctioned hackers will try to disrupt it.

We could use some security experts to help prevent that.

Aside from legal and security help, I'm sure we will want all sorts of other volunteers. Web design help, researching laws and candidates, etc. Lots of things I haven't though of.