Our Two-Party System Is On Life Support

On 9/28/16, I published a post to this blog entitled Binary Party Affiliation Choices — We Need Something Better. In it, I proposed what I believed then [and still believe now] would be a much better conceptual framework [paradigm] for selecting our leaders and governing our country under its Constitution. I said then that I’m basically a “one man show,” so I don’t have the resources or funding to build a following large enough to become widely visible on a national scale — which on something of this magnitude could actually cause it to gain enough traction to attract potential investors who have the capacity to move it from concept to reality. So at that time I felt that maybe I had planted a seed that could catch at least some wind that might take it to fertile soil. On 10/4/21, I published a follow-up post entitled Our Two-Party System Is Gasping For Breath because despite the success of the Trump administration, the 2020 election dramatically reigned in acceleration of the New Paradigm’s overtaking of the Current Paradigm [which of course would make it the Old Paradigm.] Today, there is overwhelming evidence plastering all media outlets every day that the massive paradigm shift that has been underway since 2016 has been accelerating exponentially since 11/5/2024. But nobody who has the power and resources necessary to shape our overall direction — including the current administration — seems to have noticed it from this perspective. Or, the current administration clearly sees it, knows that its decisions and actions are an integral part of it, but doesn’t have a clear component within its overall strategy that sets a vision for this part of the New Paradigm.

What Makes Me Doubt That A Clear Vision Exists?

I gave this post the title Our Two-Party System Is On Life Support because the “atmosphere” in our country since the 11/5/24 election is unlike anything I’ve witnessed in my lifetime [I’ll become an Octogenarian this year,] and clearly demonstrates that huge changes in how our government operates are underway at lightning speed [a term used often in media coverage.] I really believe we need a vision for what the New Paradigm will look like — and that it needs to be announced by President Trump as succinctly and definitively as President Kennedy announced in 1961 that this nation “should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.” The force of that directive drove an unprecedented decade of scientific innovation, but perhaps even more importantly, it became the most unifying force in America since World War II. What makes me doubt that a clear vision for this part of our government [i.e., what the replacement of the two-party system will look like] exists at this point is simply that there is no mention of it in the media. President Kennedy no doubt realized that just four months since taking office was good timing to announce something that bold.

It Won’t Take Nine Years — How About Less Than Two?

I hope that I’m wrong in concluding at this point that the vision I’m saying is needed is not yet being actively developed. Elon Musk is the ideal profile of an individual capable of conceptualizing this vision, and President Trump has demonstrated already that he is an “out of the box” thinker who is not timid about making decisions that those seeing through the lens of the Current Paradigm may regard as too harsh or too hastily made. I sincerely hope that President Trump will make a speech about this vision by the end of his fourth month in office if not much sooner.

There were many skeptics in the early stages of the “moon race,” possibly justly because there were materials and technologies known to be needed that did not yet exist [two examples being materials that would be needed for space suits and information and communications technology capabilities far beyond those that existed at that time.] Today, a relatively small team of the right minds could outline the path to successful implementation of something like what I outlined in my 9/28/16 post Binary Party Affiliation Choices — We Need Something Better this year, and it could be in operation for the mid-term elections next year. Aside from being far more effective operationally, it would make party conventions obsolete and be much more relevant to a very different electorate than the one that was satisfied with [or at least tolerated] the current modus operandi for 90% of the last hundred years.

I’ll close with the same challenge I posed to readers of my 9/28/16 post referenced above: to consider what I’ve written here in context with these words from our first two Presidents:

“However [political parties] 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 [people] will be enabled 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.” George Washington

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” John Adams

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