Do you think the country is ready for this??? I am not sure it is yet....

With the country polarized on issues that could be a difficult sell.

It's progressive. It's revolutionary. It's truly unique. Too bad it will never work in reality. I, for one, would love for nothing more than take out the partisanship from the politics. However, everyone seems to thrive on the divisive rancor that has taken over since the Bush Regime rose to power. Not me! I think our best chance is to give the next administration to a Democrat with a Republican as VP, or vice versa. That way, they'll have to work together. The delicious irony of it is enough to tantalize my political taste buds. I'm for it, hockeytom!

I have to admit that I was excited when I saw that someone was making an attempt to create a third political party. This two party system has a lot of very serious problems, but for me the main one is that the two parties are 99% the same and then argue with each other over the 1% (gay marriage, immigration) and get nothing done. The Unity party seems to be saying, we agree on 99%, so let's compromise on the 1%, which could be a good thing. However, I would much rather see a political party that didn't agree on 99%. A three party system with three nearly identical parties does not make for any better a debate, or any more of a likelihood of new ideas, than two identical parties. just my thoughts...

I'd much rather we had 5-6 parties that worked in coalitions rather than 3, but our electoral system makes it difficult.

Conservative Party - Truly Conservative to Ultraconservative
Republican Party - Neocon, Corporate Party
Libertarian Party - Libertarian in focus
Democratic Party - Moderately Liberal Party
Green Party - Environmentally Focused, Liberal
Democratic Socialist Party - Truly Liberal

Right now, people who are 1) truly conservative; 2) libertarian; 3) environmentalist liberals; 4) truly liberal with socialist focus do not have parties who address their needs. There are a small band of mostly Democratic--with a handful of Republican these days--members of Congress who are moderates, but the country is being ruled by theocrats and neocons, which does not describe the ideological interests of the vast majority of Americans, I would imagine. So maybe they need their own party, or can take the Republican Party. Maybe the Democratic Party can die and become the Reform-Democrats if they want to follow the DLC line, while the liberal members can become Greens or Dem Socialists or, if they're more libertarian and don't want NSA snooping and a king-like quasi-fascist, theocratic president, Libertarians.

I'll pass on the Republican VP, unless it's someone who's not tainted by the disaster of this current administration. If it's Chuck Hagel, maybe. The rest of them have just rolled over and played dead as the Imperial Executive marched us over the cliff.