San Francisco Chronicle

Push for a ‘no’ party system

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We are witnessing the inevitable failure of the two-party system to do what’s right for the American people.

Whether it’s a party led by a bombastic former game show host trying desperatel­y to fight changing demographi­cs that are clearly not in their favor, or a clueless party fronted in part by a woman whose ego is so big, she refuses to acknowledg­e the harm her utterly failed socalled leadership has caused, we need truly independen­t candidates that are not beholden to any political party.

The Democrats and Republican­s can always be counted on to come together for one purpose, to prevent what I am advocating. To be clear, I am not talking about running candidates for an Independen­t Party. I am talking about candidates that run under no party at all. Candidates answerable only to the will of the American people.

It is time to break the chains. The Declaratio­n of Independen­ce states that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienabl­e rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Believe me, no one is happy about the current state of affairs. Fighting the corrupted twoparty system will take money and lots of it. Ideally, benevolent billionair­es will step forward to fund efforts like this for the good of us all. You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. Rick Stenerson, Fargo, N.D.

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