WOW! Now this is a moral party platform!

Hopefully they both reach out to younger voters. The success of Sanders among young voters was surprising. It was stronger than I expected. Votes for Trump seem to be more angry votes against the same old same old.

True. The system is designed to keep a third party out.

No good. It does not promise to give away any sort of free stuff. People want free stuff. "Where's my Obama Money?"

Reason is boring. BORING. Mystics and social reformers with vast plans are EXCITING. "Watch closely! My fingers never leave my hand." (Other hand removes money from pocket.)

Additional problem. Capitalism is already well established as intrinsically evil. "Only right-wing nut cases like Ann Rand and the Kock Brothers support it." 120 years of progressive education paved the way for our current demise.

When I went to vote yesterday, there was a man with a clipboard standing outside.
I wound up signing a petition asking for the Libertarian Party to appear on the Alabama ballot of the general election.
This surprised me. I've voted for a libertarian before in the same building.

We need a tiny federal government, and leave the states to compete in terms of how they run their governments. Then true competition can set in and people will move around to the best place.

This nascent party's Platform looks a lot like the Libertarian party Statement of Principles and Platform. http://www.lp.org. The key distinction, however, is that the Libertarian Party will have ballot status in 49 or 50 states this fall and will have a worthwhile candidate, Gary Johnson, I hope, in all those states. This party will not be on the ballot anywhere. In light of that, I think peoples' time would be better spent at this time supporting the LP rather than this group. It is the LP which is the "starting point." This group seems duplicative to me.

Not as long as the media control who gets air time.

The only way this could work is if everybody that lost to None Of The Above (NOTA, from the Probability Broach series by L. Neil Smith) were barred from the next election and an entirely new field ran.

The Libertarian Party also endorses "none of the above" as a ballot choice. In fact, at the Libertarian National Convention "none of the above" is always a choice in all elections for presidential nominees and party posts.

Just have to find a politician that will endorse it. That won't be easy.

This is a political party platform that Gulchers can endorse.

My hope is that one party gains popularity and others join in. Won't be easy breaking thru the two party stronghold.

"We need several more party's. With 320 million people there is no way in hell that all our ideas are being represented. "
I agree not all ideas being represented, but lately I'm thinking it's more important to have a working framework that limits gov't power. Then it's less important that everyone's opinion on everything be reflected in gov't. We should, IMHO, resist any urges to nitpick the the Libertarian party, this party you linked to, or anyont trying to limit gov't. We should urge them to join forces on under the one goal of limiting gov't intrusiveness and cost.

Good article AJ. I like the idea. Be interesting to see how many people who aren't voting at all would show up to vote "none of these".

A friend of mine was one of the earliest instigators of the Redding, CA chapter of the Tea Party. I actually really like what the Tea Party officially stood for. This guy is a sharp guy. But, one day he quit the whole thing and has never said why. He's very tight-lipped about it. They made the mistake of allowing themselves to be crushed by, and absorbed back into, the GOP.

I might add, in addition to more Political Party's we need a NONE OF THESE option on every ballot. Let see how much money they spend when it all could all be wasted because no one can stomach their rhetoric, lies, or campaign tactics.

(I once wrote an article about this which was published by Human Event Online - http://humanevents.com/author/allan-j... ).

We need several more party's. With 320 million people there is no way in hell that all our ideas are being represented. As a free market sets the price and quality so to would a wider field of party options keep the reprehensible bastards faithful to what they are saying and delivering on what they are promising. With so many people, no election cycle should go without a runoff.

Missouri's Constitution Party is one that appeals to me somewhat.

I'm a registered libertarian now. They can't seem to get any attention. Time to try something new.

I think so, too. At least I HOPE so. There is a group I've mentioned here several times before - the 15%-ers. These are people who think, who can understand cause and effect. All of those will likely join a good 3rd party. The problem I see is so many people who call themselves conservatives, are admittedly concerned for the nation and desirous of real change - yet are forever marching to the mantra of Fox News. Something needs to be done to break those people from their trance...to get them to see that the establishment is killing our future.

The Canary Party, for example, is the only one that draws a line in the sand as far as our own bodies go - the only one who argues for informed consent and the sanctity of our own choices regarding our health. Nobody else does that. It's important to me. So, I'm in. If this new party mentioned here is really serious about creating a new paradigm, and new open discussion about how much money is being taken from us I'll be in.

Ever since Perot has success in the early 90's I have expected a viable third party to emerge. People are ready.

Have to start somewhere. I think a lot of people are looking for an alternative.

Made me think of a small party I support out here on the left coast - The Canary Party.

Will look into this further. Thanks!

Thanks Ed. Not sure how many members they have but the description sounds good. The Republicans and Democrats are a lost cause.