Problem: Polarized politics are bad for our country, our state, and our local communities.
Impact of Polarized Politics:
- Democratic Decline: Political tribalism threatens democracy, encourages animosity, and makes compromise difficult or impossible. Prioritizing party loyalty over reasonable legislative solutions erodes public trust in our democratic institutions.
- Negative Outcomes: Polarized politics foster intense dislike for "the other side" and leads to gridlock.
- Lack of Solutions: Extremist politics focuses on negative attacks and performative conflict rather than on negotiation to solve pressing social issues that impact all of us.
Solution: Find common-sense, data driven solutions to problems we ALL care about.
The Forward Party's Approach:
- Beyond Two-Party System: Forwardists seek to move our communities forward rather than continuing to promote the ineffective, binary left-right framework of the current two-party system that dominates U.S. politics.
- Proposed Solutions: Forwardists focus on "common-sense" solutions such as electoral reform (e.g., proportional representation with multi-member districts, open primaries, independent redistricting commissions) to reduce partisan rigidity and promote healthy competition.
- Non-Ideological Focus: Forwardists support politicians who respond to the public and are not beholden to any party's ideological platform.
FORWARD TOGETHER
17 October, 2022
Welcome to the Forward Party. This is America's new political home for everyone who is tired of anger, division, and dysfunction in politics. Let's move America Forward Together.
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