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This site "Coalition of The Political Center" -- is about supporting a movement for the Political Reform of Our National Government.

Both Site and Newsocialcontract.com are based on the conclusion that our election system is failing us and tends to corrupt even the honest people we elect from either party 

Index for this page

1.  The paradox -Occupy Wall Street and The Tea Party

2.  The people's demand for change  

3.  The Problems we face

4.  The relationship of the Two Sites  NewSocialContract.com and NewSocialContract.org

3.  The "Big Idea" Generic Solutions, difficulties, advantages and disadvantages

"Working to Make a Better Government and Country"

The Basic premise of a Coalition of the Political Center:

To actually cause a reform of our government the political center must come together on the fundamental changes that are absolutely necessary.  

In order to bring that required togetherness we must assign the moral concerns and arguments of of the U.S. political left and right to State level politics.  This does not mean that we have given up our basic Judeo Christian sentiments, nor that the moral arguments of the left and right  are unimportant but it does mean that if we are to marshal the required voting numbers to actually change our federal system these arguments must be fought at the state level so that the principal problems of federal corruption and economic wrongs can be addressed without the deadlock of federal level Democratic and Republican politics.

Demand for Change

The demand for change by the legion of people following President Obama was a felt need by citizens of all political parties.  It is unfortunate that the philosophy and specific changes envisioned were not spelled out. We can all agree that we are in an economic crisis of great magnitude but Congress, despite the many quality individuals we elect to Congress, seems to be as corrupt as the financial types they dragoon before their committees.  Presidents can to some measure can set national agendas only a Congress working for the good of the country can enact an agenda.  As a body we lack that Congress that can act for the good of the country.

If you followed the arguments in Newsocialcontract.com then we have some agreement on the defects of our current government.  They are not new problems but errors of the past fifteen or twenty years have made them acute. 

These two efforts connect...

  Our sister page NewSocialContract.com effort is about describing the problems we face. This sister site of "Coalition of the U.S. Political Center" is about how to go about renovating or reestablishing the original the intent of the Social Contract established by our Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. We will do that by bringing together a  common political center effort supported by the individual efforts of each of us as well as our friends who see how badly change is needed and why renewal in our Federal government and the major political Parties that drive it.  We can do better in presidential elections than being forced to make a choice between the least objectionable candidate of the two major political parties. We can do better than being forced to send the same corrupted candidates to Congress with the justification that power in Congress belongs to longevity and special interests not to those honest individuals who will do what is best for our country.

Some Generic "Big Idea" Solutions

To Get Better Presidents

1.  Run as a third Party

2.  Go Back to "Smoke Filled Room" political party control

3.   Nomination by direct action of the people

To Get a Congresspersons and Senators that Represent "For the good of the People and the Republic"

1.   A Third Party

2.    A Constitutional Convention

3.    Constitutional Amendments

4.    People Nominate a President

5.    Term Limits on Congress and Senate

This is not just one crisis of the economy...

    Our situation is  but the accumulation of several organizational illnesses that have accumulated over time.  Our young republic is young no more.  In organizational terms we have moved into old age; the organizational schemes that the founding framers of the Constitution designed for maintaining vitality of the republic have failed us; in some cases the changes in our Constitution have devolved into a direct democracy which the framers of the Constitution tried to avoid for they knew the dangers of moneyed groups controlling the tools of the press and ultimately the possible choices of the  public. Now narrow, non-democratic, moneyed special interests,  drive Congressional agendas at the expense of the public. We can change that.  Real Reform is possible.

Still A Great Country

    Our States and Communities still function despite the corruption in Congress and the faults of the two major parties. The local state media still keep us apprised of the faults as well as the strengths of individual office holders.  The local press address issues and answers of importance. More importantly we still feel like our votes count in most States and Communities. Whether our votes count is a different matter at the federal level. Concerns about corrupt expansion of centralized power is not new to the U.S. but it is time for our country to make another great effort to live our promise more fully.

Liberals, Progressives, Populists, Conservatives

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Might a National Assembly Consider (more)?

    You can play a part by just Twittering or discussing  this site on sites you already use or work.  Or, start a blog or Google site of your on that better works one of the problems we have identified.  We'll mention on this site. 

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