Time for a change

Here's another excellent piece by Ken Grandlund of Common Sense on... well, just about everything! He provides a thorough list of reasons we all should be dissatisfied with our two party political system, and demand something different. Mr. Grandlund states:

If the Democrats and the Republicans won't take this country to a place it should be, a place where our tax dollars fund the people who pay them instead of the bureaucracy that has no common sense, then we must find people who will. We must choose to elect people who are like us. People who suffer the inanity that we all endure and want to change it. People who grow weary of the rhetoric and seek to speak the truth. People who will work towards a common goal of returning America to the land of freedom and fiscal sanity and lawful rationality that it was meant to be.

I've believed for some time that the interests of the people are, for the most part, no longer adequately represented by either political party. The moment is upon us when we must look seriously at the idea of viable third party candidates for federal office. This should no longer be a novelty in the American political process - and it may be an absolute necessity for the future of our nation.