Myth of “two party” system debunked

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Curmudgeonly Texas Congressman Ron Paul who won no primaries in the Republican nomination contest but developed a strong following among mostly the disaffected on the Internet appeared at a news conference with third-party candidates, including Ralph Nader and former Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney. Paul suggested a unified backing of a non-major party candidates.

Paul routinely bemoans the “two party system” mostly because he is rejected as at best “odd” and at worst “unstable” ignores that there are 47 certified political parties in the USA more than any other nation. In addition to the Republican and Democrat Parties there is a mob of others including:

1. CONSTITUTION PARTY;

2. GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES;

3. LIBERTARIAN PARTY;

4. AMERICA FIRST PARTY;

5. AMERICAN PARTY;

6. AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY;

7. AMERICAN NAZI PARTY;

8. AMERICAN REFORM PARTY;

9. BOSTON TEA PARTY;

10. CHRISTIAN FALANGIST PARTY OF AMERICA;

11. COMMUNIST PARTY USA;

12. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA;

13. FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY / RADICAL WOMEN;

14. THE GREENS/GREEN PARTY USA (G/GPUSA);

15. INDEPENDENCE PARTY;

16. INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PARTY;

17. LABOR PARTY;

18. LIGHT PARTY;

19. MODERATE PARTY;

20. NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT;

21. NATURAL LAW PARTY;

22. NEW PARTY;

23. NEW UNION PARTY;

24. PARTY OF SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION;

25. PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY;

26. PROHIBITION PARTY; REFORM PARTY;

27. SOCIALIST PARTY USA;

28. SOCIALIST ACTION;

29. SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY;

30. SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY;

31. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY;

32. U.S. MARIJUANA PARTY;

33. U.S. PACIFIST PARTY;

34. VETERANS PARTY OF AMERICA;

35. WORKERS WORLD PARTY

All of these parties have fielded or at least endorsed a candidate for public office. In addition there eleven others who are “official” but have not fielded nor endorsed a candidate including:

36. American Patriot Party;

37. American Socialist Party;

38. Constitutionalist Party;

39. Libertarian National Socialist Green Party;

40. Multicapitalist Party; Pansexual Peace Party;

41. Pot Party; Progressive Labor Party;

42. Revolutionary Communist Party USA;

43. Social Democrats USA; The Third Party;

44. Workers Party, USA;

45. World Socialist Party of the USA;