Third Parties: The Influence Of Third Party Political Parties

Historically, the United States has seen and become a custom to a two-party political system. Typically a person identifies with a Republican or Democrat. That is not to mean that those are the only two parties, however. Third Parties are influential on the political aspect as well. They may not be as heavily represented, but they can be influential on political issues, and even benefit to the Republican and Democratic parties. Third parties bring something else to the ballot. They create an outlet for those who are fed up with Republicans and Democrats, they discuss hard topics that the other two may be tippy toeing around, they can spoil the election for either two parties, and the typically discuss topics and bring them to the forefront
The USPP was established in 2006 by Brent Allison and Alex English (uspirates.org). At the time they started, the goal was to abolish the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. They are an umbrella party under the European base Party called the Pirate Party International that is based in 70 different nations. However, the USPP is a small party in the United States and is not very represented; however, I thought it was an interesting party of which I never heard of. They base their philosophy and support of open society that allows everyone to have a voice, and empowers people to live healthy life with a true governmental transparency, and protection of privacy and civil liberties (uspirates.org). One of the interesting facts about this party is they support the legalization of pirating (sharing) movies, music and online material. So with this belief, they assumed other parties would call them the pirate party anyways, hence the name. Their major concerns are on anti-monopoly, reform of copy write laws, evidence based policy individual privacy and support on individual privacy. They focus on a transparent government that keeps governmental interactions behind doors. They also think that no one organization or business should occupy the whole product. Meaning they defy authority, and don’t think anyone should “own” certain rights. As far as major social issues that are in the public’s eye right now, they are not left wing or right wing. They focus on the issues that are important to them, and have not established or vocalized views on trending issues. Basically, they are not driven by ideology, and are driven by what