Show Me Independents: A Call to Action

America is at an important crossroads. Our infrastructure is crumbling, joblessness remains high, our tax code is convoluted and outdated, immigration reform is long overdue, and America houses more prisoners than anywhere else in the world. Americans are also, understandably, fed up; with polls showing congress’ approval ratings at some of the lowest levels in history. It is apparent party politics have failed us; so in order to solve America’s most pressing issues we must eliminate the two-party system and elect independent candidates who are willing to enact thoughtful solutions to our nation’s biggest problems.

In George Washington’s 1796 farewell address, our 1^st American President warned us against the destructive nature of party politics and the damage it would have on our Republic. George Washington famously said: “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.” This fact is increasingly more apparent as both the left and the right become more entrenched and talking heads wage a war of words across every major news outlet. While these wars rage; politicians wage campaigns across the nation for hearts and minds and dollar bills and our nation’s most pressing issues go neglected.

Americans are fed up. Congress’ approval ratings hover around record lows and recent Gallup poll shows 42% of Americans identify themselves as political independents, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews 25 years ago. The same poll only found 31% of Americans identifying as Democrats and 25% as Republicans. These numbers illustrate that a plurality of Americans are unrepresented. It is time to nominate and elect Independent candidates to office so that we can be represented and take back our country from a political class that does not have our interests at heart.

Party Politics are at odds with effective governance and is a hindrance to solving even our most basic issues. The 112^th has been one of the least productive US congress’ since the do-nothing congress of the 1940s and our current 113^th  is on par to be even worse, in fact, congress has become increasingly unproductive over the last 10 years.

We must fight back against ineffective Party Politicians by electing Independent candidates and amending our state constitutions to allow for open primaries and elect Independent candidates. Let’s come together, roll up our sleeves and vote the bums out! Make sure to share this with everyone you know and remember Crash the Party Vote Independent.

Fixing the Two Party System

Hi, my name is Chris Wilson, founder of Show-Me Independents. Today will be our first ever post, so I hope you enjoy it.

Now, today I will be talking to you about the state of the failed two-party system in American politics and how we can go about fixing it. when we talk about the current two-party system and it's problems we are really discussing two main issues here.

The first issue is the inability of Democrats and Republicans to accomplish anything legislatively. The government shutdown was a perfect example of Washington's crippling gridlock but America's problems are not going anywhere and will only worsen as they go addressed.

We have a broken immigration system in this country and the issues over undocumented and illegal immigrants only scratches the surface of what the real problems are with our current overly complicated system filled with huge backlogs, long waiting periods and is historically inept at assimilating new immigrants into American society.

Next, our infrastructure is falling apart. In fact recently the American Society of Engineers gave the country a D+ grade for its infrastructure and $3.6 Trillion is needed by 2020 just to keep it from falling into total disrepair.

This in addition compounds to the fact that two-thirds of state pensions around the country are drastically underfunded and even worse, many cities are even filing for bankruptcy due to their failed pension programs. Detroit is the one on everyone's mind with it recently being involved in its bankruptcy proceedings.

The list of problems goes on, without a single Washington politician willing to sit down and actually develop the solutions needed to address these pressing issues. We here at Show-Me Independents think that this is wholly unacceptable and will in the future offer our own solutions to these problems and others, as well as work to highlight rising Independents willing to tackle these tough issues.

Our Second major issue, to the failed two-party system, is the growing number of Americans, 40% to be exact, who are registered Independents with Moderate political views who have absolutely no political representation especially as Democrats and Republicans move further and further to the extremes leaving a plurality of Americans disenfranchised. Being that this is supposed to be a Representative Democracy that is completely unacceptable and we as Independents must fight back and end the choke hold that two-party special interests have on this country.

This is the first of many more videos to come. So make sure to rate, comment and subscribe to our channel and for more information on the State of the Revolution, as well as Independent political news and analysis go to showmeindependents.blogspot.com. Thanks for watching and don't forget. Crash the Party Vote Independent.