Now you're talkin', Old Guy. It is just like the Bloods and the Crips. I can think of nothing that would do America more good right now than to totally abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and all the other damned parties too, and just vote for individuals. Then those individuals would not owe their souls to a party machine, and would be free to vote their conscience in Congress. There would be NO party in power in Washington, just a group of freely elected representatives who would NOT be artificially divided into two warring power blocks intent on discrediting and ruining each other.

And it would throw a monkey wrench into the damned lobbyists too, because they would not have a party bureacracy to control and bribe any longer.