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PROPOSAL FOR THIRD PARTY UNITY1. All third parties with ballot access shall meet together at the local, state, and national level as soon as possible.
2. The purpose of this meeting shall be to isolate those issues favored according to polls by most registered Democrats and Republicans and by more than half of the U.S. public, to find how many of them all parties can agree upon, and to put these into a single platform. Issues upon which all parties cannot agree shall be disregarded in the interests of unity.
3. That once a unified platform as been agreed upon, the parties shall ask their memberships to vote to agree to temporarily unite as a single party, tentatively to be called the United States Party.
4. That those in agreement with this proposal urge all other third parties, local, state, and national, to do the same.
Background:
Third parties with ballot access include the following among others:
Socialist Workers Party
Reform Party
Green Party
Peace and Freedom Party
Libertarian Party
Working Families Party
A very partial list of some of the things that third parties might all agree on are:
Upholding the Constitution
Ending corporate personhood
Ensuring honest elections
Single-payer health care
Publicly financed elections
Proportional representation
Instant run-off voting
Abolishing the electoral college
Ensuring equal ballot access for all political parties
Restoring the FCC Fairness Doctrine to the media
Opening political debates to all parties
Effective oversight of intelligence agencies
Reining in defense spending
Repealing the Patriot Acts
Ending illegal government wiretapping
Ending torture as U.S. foreign policy
Encouraging more sustainable energy policies
Most Americans are looking for an alternative to the two parties which are not responsive to their wishes. If the third parties wish to unite and provide that alternative, they had better act quickly--time, tide, and elections wait for no one.
This proposal is copyleft and may be reproduced freely without permission.
