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Connor Brantley is just 12 years old, but he's already tired of the bitter partisanship in politics. And he's ready to do something about it. The McLean Middle School seventh-grader is working to create the United Party to someday give voters and politicians alike an alternative to the strong two-party system of Democrats and Republicans.As with so many mainstream media articles on third party activism, a political science professor is on hand to argue that any and all opposition to the legacy parties is doomed to failure:"It's so partisan in Washington," Connor said. "Just think, if [members of Congress] could just one day work and actually do what they are elected to do . . . If they could just work together without partisanship ... they'd actually work together to get things done."
Connor is on the verge of filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to create the party.
"The two major parties get the vast majority of votes," said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "It's nice that he has an interest in politics and a concern about the current state of our political affairs. But the more he learns about how steep this hill is, the better Little League will look to him."
3 comments:
Wow Professor Cal Jillson...what an asshole. Way to go trying to crush the kid's dreams. Little League...how insulting is that?
Sometimes it takes the mind of a child (not yet fully brainwashed by the GovernMental Media) to cut straight through the BS and arrive at a logical solution.
If America worked as it should, kids like Connor and other people with functioning independent minds would be encouraged rather than hindered.
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LOL. Couldn't have said it better myself Kam. Judging from their statements in these sort of articles, political science professors may well be one of the most reactionary groups of people in the country. You might get a kick out of a previous post on this topic: "these professors profess nothing but reactionary support for the existing relations of power and the ruling political class; they could learn a thing to two from their students."
An old survey, from the 1980's I think, had about 80% of Americans in favor of direct popular election of the president, but 58% of political scientists preferred keeping the old system. After all, the "two party system" is how they make their living, and if anthing changed that, they might have to learn something new, God forbid!
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