Michael Bloomberg:The End of Political Parties?

Michael Bloomberg has forsaken the GOP. That's good news for anyone that likes Michael Bloomberg and has a vested interest in good government. Bloomberg is one of those rare birds that come along all too infrequently that have no personal agenda except leaving the world a little better than when he found it. He a guy that has conquered the private sector, achieving all of his goals (or so it would seem) and now wants to "give back" to the world that has given him so much.

I'm not saying that I approve of everything he stands for; I don't know that much about him. All I know about him is that he has managed to run New York City well and that many in New York, a Democratic stronghold, love him. I know he only takes a dollar a year for his salary, and works hard for the people of New York City. The fact that he brought a giant kiss-off to the party of Lincoln, the party that gave us George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, warms my heart.

The fact that he did not run to the pretenders for political backing, tells me that he realizes what many of us already know, that the Democrats are no catch either. It would be the greatest thing that ever happened if political parties in the nation just suffered a quick and brutal death at the hands of those that realize that party politics leads to bad governance.

I would like to see Michael Bloomberg run for President and win. It would send a message that should have been heard when Ross Perot almost took out the Republican Party. When is the American public going to learn that power breeds corruption? Could you see elections without party politics based on the Clean Elections initiative that is slowly making its way into the political jargon of some states? Wouldn't it be wonderful to vote for a person instead of a party?

Could you imagine if political parties were a thing of the past? How very different our lives would be when the Congress could vote for a bill and not for the party that sponsored it. How very different if people could vote for a real person with their own values instead of a platform of ideas put up by a group of people with shared agendas.