Political Parties

Why do we have them? What's the point of classifying people? Everyone has their own opinions, ESPECIALLY when it comes to politics, and someone's always doing something that's not truly republican or democrat.

Why can't we all just be independent parties?

Reason why no parties are better;
1) Other groups of people would get more known and more publicity. Ie; the parties other than the two main ones would be able to get out there because right now, the only two parties people focus on are republicans and democrats. It would be a more open voting. You never see the third party candidates on televised debates. An argument to this would be the common misconception that third parties are considered 'extreme' parties, much like communists. Most of these third party ideals are usually adopted by the two larger parties in the end, so why not let them get credit for their own ideals? If everyone got the equal amount of airtime and funding, we'd be seeing a much different American political perspective.
2) People would have to actually look into what the politician believes, not just the general ways of his party. People would have to pay more attention to the candidate rather than their party. It seems that no one votes toward the person and for what's better for the nation. We all know that half of America (loose, made up assumption) doesn't actually pay attention to the election other than the two final candidates and people are votes are just placed because of what 'party' you're in, or what party your parents raised you as.
3) No more of this "Blame the republicans because of Bush!" or "Blame the democrats because of Clinton!". One man's flaws should not be able to bring burden on an entire group of politicians, while there are still other, better, politicians in the same party. It's like judging all rap music by one song you hear on the radio. It just doesn't work like that.

Mainly, eliminating political "parties" would lead Americans to more open mindedness when it comes to elections. Not confined to the walls of what you were raised on or who is in the two biggest groups.

I understand that it would help to organize the politicians, just for statistics sake, but are there any REAL benefits of dividing the political nation like this? It's like segregation, just with politics.
It looks like I wasn't the first one to reach this conclusion. Even the first President of the United States realized that parties are just a burden on the nation.
“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public counsels and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasional riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.”

-George Washington

Thoughts?
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Justin Perry.
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