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Though not referred to in the original Constitution, political parties have established a foothold in our electoral process. The organization of primary elections based on political party strengthens these nongovernmental organizations. In the U.S. this has resulted in the dominance of two political parties and the polarization of the electorate based on party affiliation. Direct democracy is better served by candidates appealing to voters based on their own qualifications and platforms, rather than on their party membership. Voters should be free to choose their preferred candidate, rather than restricted in primary elections to only voting for members of their own party.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Comment Instructions” _builder_version=”4.4.6″ background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” custom_padding=”5px|10px|5px|10px|false|false” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”479″]<\/p>\n Comments are welcome below. All comments must be respectfully written and not contain misinformation or fallacious reasoning. We welcome thoughtful dialogue of differences.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_comments _builder_version=”4.4.6″][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″ background_color=”rgba(249,237,124,0.2)”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.6″][et_pb_menu _builder_version=”4.4.6″ custom_padding=”|10px||10px|false|false” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”228″][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.6″] Though not referred to in the original Constitution, political parties have established a foothold in our electoral process. The organization of primary elections based on political party strengthens these nongovernmental organizations. In the U.S. this has resulted in the dominance of two political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}