So, usually I write my articles from a very conservative point of view because I really believe in growing more conservative and libertarian ideas. But for this article, I’m going to take a new stance on American politics and focus on the fundamental issue I have with the two-party system.

I was talking with a co-worker when I was inspired to write this article. He told me that he thought that our country currently has radical party leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, and that no one represents the moderate middle-ground people. He told me that he thinks that America should enact a parliamentary system. His argument was wrong for a variety of reasons, as a parliamentary system would give more power to the executive branch and this little document called The U.S. Constitution doesn’t exactly allow for that kind of a system in this country anyways.

Despite that, we debated back and forth a little about the parliamentary system and finally we came to a point where my co-worker mentioned that he thought life would be better if everything was utopic and we could get along and pick one party to run the government. Again, we debated but what he was trying to get at was a very specific version of what I think a lot of American’s are pining for. Hang with me on this, I promise.

In our two-party system, a large portion of Democrats wanted to see the DNC nominate Bernie Sanders, a Senator who was hoping to expand the government to make the lives of American citizens better, and at the end of the day he had a big issue with the way the government was running and wanted to see big change. The Republicans on the other hand had a lot more options for the GOP nominee and picked Donald Trump, a businessman that was hoping to bring economic prosperity to a country losing jobs and business to foreign markets. At the end of the day he had a big issue with the way the government was running and wanted to see a big change.

What happened in the 2016 election that no one seems to realize, is that for the first time is a long time, arguably ever, the American people wanted to elect two opposing revolutionists to become the next President of the United States. Republican’s and Democrat’s alike lose focus on the bigger picture of what happened in the 2016 election. We are in the midst of an American revolution and we don’t even realize it because we’re too strung up in blaming the Republican’s for unequal treatment and racism, and we’re too busy blaming the Democrat’s for taking away free-speech and giving us crappy healthcare. The problem isn’t Republicans or Democrats in Washington, it’s politicians in Washington despite their party boundaries.

People, I have listened to seminar after seminar from people that work in Washington D.C. and they say the same thing every single time, that the American people think that it’s Republicans versus Democrats but they're wrong because it’s actually the American people versus the government.

You want better healthcare and the right to use medical marijuana and pick your own doctor? Don’t blame the Democrats. The Republican’s voted not to repeal Obamacare and they don’t even have to live under it! Blame the government, not a party.

So, what is the fundamental problem with our two-party system? It’s thinking that it exists. It is not a horizontal model of Republican versus Democrat. It’s a vertical model with the government on top and the American citizens on bottom. And I can bet, that despite where you find yourself on the political spectrum, you’re sick of the government mandating what you can and can’t do and that’s why we voted for revolutionists.

I really believe that Americans are fighting the wrong battles right now, and that we are wasting energy fighting against this horizontal model of R v. D in our heads. But, if we could get this two-party hatred out of our heads, I think we could fight change better as a united country than a divided one.