My idea for a progressive 3rd party

[Pat Mustard]

This is the problem. People want parties to be in charge when it should really be the one's who have the people's best interests in mind. I've always said we should get rid of the party system and everyone should run as an Independent. This way people would be forced to research that candidate.

You should look at the UK parliamentary system in the 16th to 18th centuries. Endemic bribery, rotton boroughs (ie constuencies with more MPs than constituents), parliamentary inertness and national mismanagement were the result.

Either that or a dictatorial one party state (cf Cromwell).