What is MultiPartySystem.com all about?

The problem:

The American electoral system naturally polarizes into two parties. It is not the most popular ideology that wins, it's the ideology that is uniform enough to get more votes than any single other. If conservative voters disperse among the Republican party and the Libertarian party then the Democrats win. If liberal voters are spread across the Green party and the Democratic party then the Republicans win. This has become an established fact of our political system - and it is unacceptable.

Why two parties is great for politicians

There's a saying among surfers: "You don't have to be able to outswim a shark - you just have to outswim your buddy." The same is true for politicians in the two-party system. Then don't have to be good representatives of the people, they just have to be better than the other guys. They can do their public service in comfort knowing that the entire system is quantifiable and pollable and that there are only two parties allowed to play in the game.

Why two parties is bad for everyone else

When your members of congress only need to make sure that you hate their opponents more than you hate them there is no accountability. There's no representation. If you care about minimal government you're going to have to vote for the Republican party even though they've been a horrible steward of this belief. If you care about abortion rights you have to vote for the Democratic party. That means that a conservative has to put up with legislated bedroom affairs, handouts to big business and skyrocketing debt. Environmentalists have to put up with half-hearted laws, sleazy pandering politicians, and an unclear agenda. The socially liberal have to put up with poorly written laws and the same damn skyrocketing debt. The fact is that political issues are anything but simple. There are many different political views in this country and it's a disservice to reduce them to 'left' and 'right'.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Representative democracy needs to have officials who actually represent the people. To do so they need a healthy fear that if they fail to represent they'll be removed by any of the other parties that are vying for their position.
Enter MultiPartySystem.com.
What we're building is a network of voters who prefer either the Democratic or the Republican party but would like to see their representatives working better for them. They find someone who disagrees with them on issues but who also wants to see change - and they make that change happen together.

How it works:

Gina is a Republican. She is responsible with her money and she thinks the government should be responsible with what she gives it. She believes in the second amendment and she cares about individual rights. She also believes that there shouldn't be laws restricting who can marry whom. Gina votes Republican but thinks we can do better.

Robert is a Democrat. He believes in state-funded healthcare and thinks a lot of resources should go to help the poor. He was for the war in Afghanistan but thinks we shouldn't have gone to Iraq. Robert votes Democratic but thinks we can do better.

Gina and Robert only agree on one issue: that we can do better than our current system. So they use MultiPartySystem.com to find each other and to partner for the next election. Robert is going to vote Green. Or Socialist. Or anything other than Democratic. Gina is going to vote Libertarian. Or Reform. Or Constitution. Or anything other than Republican.

And that's when the politicians start to get nervous.