If the party system never goes away, and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere unfortunately, the people can certainly educate themselves and their children to choose a candidate on issue not on party, learning the “tagging system in second grade.

Excellent work, I think the future you see would be a better one indeed.

While some bloggers focus on using the conventions as lessons in marketing, I want to spend a moment here by asking you to step back and ask yourself if we can learn anything from political marketing that is useful to us as business and consumer market…

I’m linking back to you and adding a trackback to my post discussing these issues.

(there’s a reason I don’t write about politics very often…)

The fat cats who run the fiefdoms at the Donkey Ranch and the Elephant Graveyard have too much at stake to let this happen willingly. They like the ducats to flow to their buckets, which won’t happen if we’re slapping messy labels on people that aren’t simple Blue and Red.

This is going to be a bottom-up revolution. The parties won’t go anywhere, but a larger percentage of voters who refuse to toe the line and vote straight tickets will be a major disruption. Particularly if they start seeing their contribution to special interest PACs as simply that – instead of as a means to fuel the great Two-Animal Circus.