Burn the Party System to the Ground
Republican or Democrat? The Federalist party founded by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. The anti-federalists’ Democratic-Republican party. The National Republicans. The infamous Whig party. The Bull Moose party.
Elon Musk has formed a new political party: the America Party, created in opposition to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. Economic conservatives – social liberals dominate this new third-party. The problem is, very few people actually support this platform.
Have you ever heard the name Gary Johnson? He ran for president in 2012 and 2016 under these beliefs as a member of the Libertarian Party. In 2012 he secured 1% of the vote, and in 2016, 3.3%, despite being the former governor of New Mexico.
Perhaps a more notable example is Arnold Schwarzenegger. His political career fell into shambles as both parties abandoned him. Now he is relegated to embarrassing the hosts of The View and reminding Americans of an era of overrated movie actors who never truly “will be back.”
Let me be clear: despite my dislike of the America Party for various reasons, it is quite necessary and yet insufficient. We do not need a prominent third party. We need ten more parties, perhaps twenty. Why? Because we need to break the democratic two-party system. It enables a winner-take-all political arena where volume replaces reason. Once the dominating party assumes power, it becomes necessary to silence the other. Ironically though, in a nation the size of the United States, they never actually embody the beliefs of any of the people.
We do not need three major political parties though, to fix this problem. We do not need ten. Dozens would be required to actually fully represent the people, yet this is obviously impractical. It would achieve one desirable end though: it would shatter the political party system staunchly warned about by George Washington.
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 men 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.
Washington warned about factions during the rise of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. Undeniably, both fairly represented common beliefs of the time, federalist and anti-federalist views, and both were led by noble, admirable, and heroic Founding Fathers. Despite this, they undeniably started into motion a crisis that has severely rocked our modern government, elections, politics, politicians, and country.
There is one ultimatum: we must end the political party system. The uniparty is not the product of mere corruptionโit is the inevitable outcome of a two-party structure, itself born from the faction system. As both sides scream whenever a third party emerges, it โsplits the voteโโa glaring admission that the system was never built to represent the people, only to preserve power. This is why we must flood the system, not play by its rules. There is no reforming it. There is no salvaging it. The only option is to destroy itโto burn it to the ground. The faction system must come to an end.
Let me present a theoryโone plainly observable in practice. A two-party system inevitably produces a democratic, majority-takes-all result. The victorious side must then silence the opposition to protect its power and solidify its gains. This leads to a fork in the road. One path drifts toward socialism, where all voices are muddled, thus successfully silencing all, culminating in full communismโabsolute control over the people, opposition, and even your own ranks. The other path veers toward corporatism, where the ruling faction governs through the market, silencing dissent with economic force. This evolves into fascismโno definition needed. And if the system collapses entirely, it descends into anarchy, which history shows is always โresolvedโ by totalitarian rule.
This is the end of the illusion. The two-party system is not the foundation of American republicanismโit is its cage. It has twisted the republic into a battleground where power matters more than principle, and where the people are spectators rather than sovereigns. It weaponizes factions and shatters the principles, the very concept of the republic. We cannot tinker with this machine. We must reject it. Shatter it. Burn the structure down and build something worthy of a free people. Because in the end, itโs not about saving a systemโitโs about saving a nation. And that begins when we stop asking which side of the same coin we will identify with, and start asking how to destroy the factions never intended to begin in the first place.
The two-party systemโnow merged into a single, self-serving unipartyโis not preserving the republic or representing the people; it is paving the road to totalitarianism. These parties are not competing for the peopleโthey are colluding for control. If we are to restore the republic, we must do more than win elections. We must dismantle the faction system itself. Because if we do not break it, it will own us. And if we refuse to end it, it will end freedom in America.
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