In the United States of America when people talk about politics only two major parties come to mind, the republicans or the democrats. People usually think that if one does not like taxes, then they tend to associate with the Republicans, if they want more social programs they associate themselves with the Democrats. One fact that people always seem to forget is that the United States of America is not a two party state and that there are several other parties out there with which the people can associate themselves with depending upon their personal preferences on how a country should be run or what policies they would like to see implemented. There are several reasons why the two major parties dominate the political landscape. One of the explanations is that “a two-party system arose in the United States from an early political battling between the federalists and anti-federalists in the first few decades after the ratification of the Constitution” (Schmidt, Steffen W., Shelley, Mack C., Bardes, Barbara A, 2008), the other factor is “The American election system” where the winner-takes-all system guarantees that any third. Finally, the Electoral College system in the United States, by favoring a system of winner–takes–all in presidential elections, there is no has no chance of a third party winning, but today in the 21th century if one does not like the policies or the candidates of both the two major parties or if one feels that he or she must choose between the lesser evil between both candidates one can always support a third party like: The Green party, The Libertarian party, The Constitution Party, America first party etc. One of the biggest third parties out there is the Libertarian party and according to their website, “the Libertarian Party is America 's third largest and fastest growing political party.” The Libertarian party was conceived in Colorado during 1971 party due to concerns about “the Vietnam War, conscription, and the end of the gold standard” (Murphy, The Government, p.
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555). And was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Libertarians have a unique stand on their policies and at the same time their policies are broad enough to get the public support, they are not the traditional left or right, but they have a unique stand where they are for total individual liberties like pro-drug legalization, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-home schooling, pro-gun rights, etc. And at the same time there are for total economic freedom like anti-welfare, anti-government regulation of business, anti-minimum wage, anti-income tax, pro-free trade etc. Their ideology can be summed up to “more freedom, less government and lower taxes. “They also have a very interesting foreign policy of “Non-intervention”. A lot people regard the libertarian party an alternative to the republican party where one is fiscally conservative while at the same following democratic beliefs such as legalizing gay marriage, legalizing drugs etc. With regards to the ongoing election where a large majority of voters are stuck to choose between the lesser of the two evils the libertarian part saw a huge increase in their party membership. As of today the libertarian party has Over 400 members holding various positions nationwide In any given election year, the Libertarian party has more candidates than the remaining other third parties. In 1988 libertarian parties most influential member was a Presidential nominee Ron Paul is now a Republican Congressman from Texas. In 2008, former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) and former US Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) both switched to the LP and campaigned for the party 's Presidential nomination -- and Barr won the nomination and As the Libertarian party nominee, Barr had ballot status in 45 states and captured 525,000 votes (4th place - 0.4%).More recently the most famous figure with whom a majority of people associate the party with is former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, he was the Libertarian party Presidential nominee in 2012, had ballot status in 48 states, and scored the highest vote total in the party 's history: 1,276,000 (3rd place - 1%).He is also contesting as a presidential candidate 2016 presidential election as the Libertarian party nominee and” A recent poll by
555). And was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Libertarians have a unique stand on their policies and at the same time their policies are broad enough to get the public support, they are not the traditional left or right, but they have a unique stand where they are for total individual liberties like pro-drug legalization, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-home schooling, pro-gun rights, etc. And at the same time there are for total economic freedom like anti-welfare, anti-government regulation of business, anti-minimum wage, anti-income tax, pro-free trade etc. Their ideology can be summed up to “more freedom, less government and lower taxes. “They also have a very interesting foreign policy of “Non-intervention”. A lot people regard the libertarian party an alternative to the republican party where one is fiscally conservative while at the same following democratic beliefs such as legalizing gay marriage, legalizing drugs etc. With regards to the ongoing election where a large majority of voters are stuck to choose between the lesser of the two evils the libertarian part saw a huge increase in their party membership. As of today the libertarian party has Over 400 members holding various positions nationwide In any given election year, the Libertarian party has more candidates than the remaining other third parties. In 1988 libertarian parties most influential member was a Presidential nominee Ron Paul is now a Republican Congressman from Texas. In 2008, former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) and former US Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) both switched to the LP and campaigned for the party 's Presidential nomination -- and Barr won the nomination and As the Libertarian party nominee, Barr had ballot status in 45 states and captured 525,000 votes (4th place - 0.4%).More recently the most famous figure with whom a majority of people associate the party with is former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, he was the Libertarian party Presidential nominee in 2012, had ballot status in 48 states, and scored the highest vote total in the party 's history: 1,276,000 (3rd place - 1%).He is also contesting as a presidential candidate 2016 presidential election as the Libertarian party nominee and” A recent poll by