States' Rights, American Independents, Libertarians, New Alliance, .
Populists, Consumers, National Economic Recovery, Right to Life, .
Workers league, Socialist Workers, Peace and Freedom, Prohibitionists, .
Workers World, American, Grassroots, Independent and Third World .
Assembly. This immense list goes to show that not all American history .
has been two party. What we know today as Democrats and Republicans .
derived from some of these parties to be what they are today. The .
emergence of the parties has come mainly as a reaction to history .
where most of the rulers have been dictators or kings. The people do .
not favor dictatorship and therefore created political parties to .
better represent the feelings of the voters (Madron, 1974). This is .
not a time of a dictatorship and we have achieved representative .
democracy. We have evolved as a nation and have grown out of the need .
for political parties. The 1992 Presidential election was a definite .
sign that the usefulness of political parties is crumbling. The .
Democrats came out on top, followed by the Republicans, however, a .
third party candidate, Ross Perot, emerged and ended the race with .
nearly 10,000,000 popular votes. Perot made himself out to be the only .
one who could clean up the mess in Washington, and came through with .
an impressive finish (Wolfson, 1994). From this example, it is obvious.
that the way we know political parties, or perhaps political parties .
as a whole, are being phased out by the people. The world in which we .
live is constantly changing and getting faster and more efficient at .
making news readily available to the people. Back in the times before .
radio, tv, the internet and e-mail, people had to find out somehow .
about politics. The main source of their information came from .
political parties to educate them as to who was running and what they .
stood for and believed in (Carlin, 1992). Now, if someone needs .
information on some kind of politics, they can simply turn on C-Span, .