Post-Primary: The Future is Unwritten

One candidate, despite his stalwart and efective political image, is not readily available to the media for interview. The other acknowledges that his opponents say he is outspoken, and he admits it, and there is nothing wrong with that, but there is something disturbing about a candidate who says he will take a baseball bat to Albany, presumably to crack heads, who discusses severe budget cuts to the State's contributions toward Medicaid, cutting 20 billion in his first year,  and who makes light of sending racist, "humorous" emails about the President. The fact that he can buy his way into a nomination in NY State, and then rally a great deal support based upon the collision of political gridlock and corruption on the State level, and an administration with serious communication problems of the Federal level, suggests that the two major political parties are not satisfactorily addressing the serious economic, political and social issues, and governmental dysfunctions, that currently lead to anger, disgust and confusion within the American democracy. 

There are rumors that Joe Biden and Hillary Rodham Clinton may switch roles in the next election. We are in a very complex and transitional time, for politics and our nation. Who will be the GOP candidate in 2012: Sarah Palin? Chris Christie of New Jersey? The problem remains that these are complex issues that require bipartisan cooperation to resolve. But American politics is getting more and more extreme.

As the GOP party unravels and the Democrats fight to retain the White House and seats in Congress, some of the smaller parties, past and future, that have taken root in the US, give an idea of the directions that some voters will take as a result of their dissatisfaction with the major party choices offered:

The Tea Party Movement here
The Modern Whig Party here
The US Pirate Party here
The Whig Party here