Join me as I begin to explore the third party options across America. The national candidates, the local candidates and organizations who devote themselves to creating choices for us all. Who motivates them, when the major [arties and mainstream media will only tell the that they don’t matter, at best they will scapegoat the third parties, blaming them for the loss. In our national zeitgeist it’s believed that only the major parties matter, that only they are credible. That anyone who considers the alternatives is deluded, dreaming an impossible dream.

But why is that? It serves the major parties, certainly. After the Reform Party made strides in the ’90s, effecting the presidency, electing a governor, the major parties altered how the debates operated. They refused to let the League of Women Voters continue to run the debates. They locked the other parties out.

Are the people who support these other parties truly throwing their votes away? Or are they the true believers in Democracy. In the Nineteenth Century, third parties could grow to true power. That’s how the Whigs, the Anti-Masonic Party and the Republican Party all began. As third parties who believed they could make a difference, to better the country.

How did they do it? Could it be done by a third party now?

Without choice, there is no democracy.