According to the results of "a new poll of likely voters in 10 key open House districts ... a majority of likely voters think a viable third party would be good for American politics." This is consistent with the results of another poll done last month indicating that "few like Democrats but as many or more don't like Republicans either. ... Just over half have unfavorable views of each party."
Given the ease with which they can be and are routinely manipulated, I think it's always wise to treat poll results with skepticism. That's especially true since almost nothing we see or hear from the so-called mainstream media is free from the taint of some manipulative agenda. Whatever the magnitude of Republican gains in the midterm elections the media party line will undoubtedly tend to interpret the result as a mandate for bipartisan government. We can already see this party line emerging in Mark Halperin's recent column for Time.com:
"The politically good news for Obama is that no matter what the outcome of the midterm elections, everything changes in January. Republicans will have a greater obligation, politically and morally, to help govern rather than thwart and badger."
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The present situation of the American people is like that of an ailing patient who finally realizes that both specialists competing for the privilege of treating the ailment are quacks. Does it really make sense to interpret the patient's dissatisfaction as a mandate for the two quacks to work together? That would only seem logical to someone whose objective is to make sure that the quacks avoid the fate their false doctoring deserves, i.e., peremptory dismissal. Anyone giving top priority to the patient's well-being would instead reach the more obvious conclusion that what the patient wants is a doctor who's not faking it.
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Tragically for the American people, the current sham two-party system has already done to our politics what the government takeover of the health sector aims to do to our health-care system, that is, force us to live with whatever alternatives our self-appointed masters in the "ruling class" (repugnantly so-called) deign to serve up. In this respect, the two so-called "major" political parties are exactly what George Washington warned against in his famous Farewell Address. They are "combinations and associations ... with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities":
They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be able to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
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In every particular our current political system corresponds to this description. In every area of our public life and policy, including the critically vital issues of our national security, we see evidence that the nation's good is being subverted to serve the unbridled greed, lust for power and self-worshiping vanity of an elite class that has entirely lost any sense of allegiance to our democratic republic, it's principles of liberty and the Constitution intended to implement them. They first quietly sapped and now openly sack and pillage the common wealth and credit of the American people. For their private gain they first eroded and now openly surrender our borders and borderlands. With studied consistency they have degraded the quality of all our educational institutions. Behind the cunning mask of zeal for equal rights and compassion, they have attacked and now seek to destroy the institutional supports of family life, as well as individual responsibility and self-reliance. Using every device of art, every medium of entertainment and every opportunity of defamation, they have sought to undermine and now once and for all seek to destroy the moral heart, religious faith and decent character of our people.
Their pervasive moral attack is the strongest proof of their hostility to the liberty, safety and happiness of the American people. George Washington rightly observed that "of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these finest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them."
The Republican Party may now purport to be, de facto, the only immediately available alternative to the Obama faction's obvious push toward socialistic despotism. In this position, it offers the surest proof that the present two-party system is corrupt beyond repair, to wit, a GOP leadership that consistently and assiduously seeks to banish from political debate the moral issues that must be addressed if the American people are to repel the fatal blows now being directed against the foundations of our Constitution and our liberty.
This cynical, anti-moral and anti-religious spirit of party is destroying us. Our hopes as a free people will not and cannot be restored until all of the structures and leading personalities spawned by that spirit have been swept away upon the tide of a new understanding of citizenship that stands for the common good, upon the principles of our common creed, beginning with respect for the authority and will of the Creator God who made us free.
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On Nov. 2 the best the American people can hope to achieve for their liberty is a stay of execution. Liberty's ultimate fate will depend on whether the people then continue the self-destructive charade of party politics, thus wasting the opportunity they have gained, or instead make good use of it to rediscover and act upon the vocation of true citizenship, discarding parties to serve only God and country.
