Political parties are interested in winning so that they can have power and control over the major branches of government. Over the past 50 years, trillions of dollars are transferred to power changes for Democrats and Republicans. House domination is the equivalent to corporate welfare. The political process has been hijacked, and without many older Americans realizing, we have converted to a Corporatized Democracy. Corporations first, people second.
Millennials have figured it out. We can not have change until we change the political process. The marriage of Corporations, Media, and Political Parties has changed out country, and not for the better. There is a stranglehold on issues of decency. We live in a lottery system of services based on political whims instead of social policy.
Our educational system is another example of the problem with political parties. Hijacked for decades by political parties, the system is a revolving door of standardized educational testing and corporate control. Teachers are not treated as professionals. They have been incorporated into a system of professional test givers. The same is true for Guidance Counselors. Often relegated to data analysis, they have help more with the administration of tests than working directly with students. Parents have demanded for years reform, priorities for curriculum and less tests, only to fall on deaf ears. It seems that corporatized curriculum is more important than local control.
The decline of political parties will continue. However, the corporations control the agenda as political parties decline. It will take a greater decline in political parties to increase the possibility of positive change for the United States. How long this change will take is anyone's guess.
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