Not a Party

The republican party is completely dead. The democratic party caves when they are ahead. Maybe we should replace them with something that is not a party. A party seems to insist on dogma, and what if the dogma doesn’t work? What about a party that insists on doing only what works?

We constantly see “debates” in congress where the claim is made that this proposed bill will create 1.5 bazillion jobs. What if you weren’t allowed to merely make claims like that, what if you had to bake them into the legislation itself? The legislation gets passed, it doesn’t create 1.5 bazillion jobs, then it self repeals by failing to meet the claimed goals.

Having “prove it” as the only dogma, not a party would always be willing to consider ideas from left, right, center, up, down, or sideways. As long as the idea can be tested in some way to prove it had the claimed benefits. If not a party ran the government, the only “waste” would be ideas that didn’t work, which were quickly terminated for not working.

This begs the question: “What does works mean?” Give this a try.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Works means advancing one or more goals in the preamble of the constitution.

Note the preamble mentions “the people”, not “the plutocrats”, not “the big corporations”, not “the dictator buddies of the president”. I'll leave with this quote from a video I watched recently:

“Working is better than happy every single time.”

— Rick Wilson