Politics of the Union of Everett

The political system in the Union of Everett is a rapidly evolving array of ideologies. Unlike the former United States and its current political system that has remained intact for over two hundred years, Everett's political system has seen the collapse of the American defacto two-party type system and a rise of dozens of smaller, yet intensely popular political activist groups and candidates whom they support. Most notable of the differences between the Union of Everett and the United States, is the collapse of the Republican and Democratic parties within the Union of Everett.

Political Parties
By law, political parties are illegal on the federal level of elections. Candidates running for a federal office are not allowed to form party blocs, which can be used to exclude, attack, fund or lobby candidates. The former U.S. system of political parties, which is common worldwide in Democracies, but the U.S. system in particular, commonly results in intense levels of corruption and forced ideological values (where a member of a party must obey and follow the standards of the party's overall ideology or end up excluded), commonly resulting in candidates being unable to run for an election. This too has formed in the U.S. a defacto two-party system, dividing liberal and conservative voters into party politics and independent candidates and independent voters excluded from vital voting processes and debates.

President Kaitlyn Spencer notably criticized the use of the party system to prevented non-party registered voters (independent voters, third party voters and others) from having a say in the electoral processes of Republican or Democratic candidates during primaries. This party exclusion also prevents Democratic voters from being involved in the Republican candidates during primaries and the Republican voters from being involved in Democrat candidates. As a result, nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population is essentially restricted from having a say in certain portions of election processes. Spencer also criticized the final Presidential debates, which always excluded third-party candidates from the extremely vital debates to swinging public opinions. In the U.S., the Democratic candidate for President and the Republican candidate debate each other on the important issues affecting the country and forcefully excluding any third party candidates from participating, resulting in the defacto two-party system.

With the Everetti system in place, candidates are not able to run on party lines, have full free will of ideology and to state their personal agenda for the position. All voters are legally able to decide on every facet of the election and debates consist of every candidate who insists on running until election day. Voting machines as well keep all candidates listed, to not exclude other candidates, that in the U.S. system, like third-party or no-party affiliation candidates, would not appear on the ballots. As well, without the party system, it erases the need for election Primaries, forcing all candidates, even if they typically agree with each other on the issues, the equal and fair ability to run against one another and all the other candidates.

Common Political Groupings
Although there are no political parties allowed in federal elections, and state parties are not allowed to interfere with federal elections, a variety of like-minded ideological groupings have exploded across the country. The 2013 elections saw 131,775,218 voters turn-out to vote.


 * Christian Values - Although smaller than most of the right-leaning ideologies, Christian Values is a political grouping of people who tend to be intensely pro-Christian teachings and are most notable for assaults on gay rights issues and are heavily anti-abortion. Based on a federal census of all registered voters, who answered a questionnaire regarding their personal opinions, approximately 15 million Everetti voters fall into this ideological grouping.
 * 2nd Amendment'rs - A common and rapidly growing positive public view towards civilian ownership of firearms and the Second Amendment of the Constitution. 2nd Amendment'rs are considered the largest grouping of voter ideologies in the Union of Everett. 2nd Amendment'rs are pro-gun, most are against assault weapon bans, approve of public carrying of firearms for self defense, and have tendencies to seek laws with strict anti-crime penalties. 2nd Amendment'rs are consider right-wing"ish", holding strong Constitutional values, are anti-war and dislike excessive government involvement in personal matters. Comparable with the Libertarian Party of the United States, the census identifies approximately 80 to 110 million voters but no less than 75 million voters falling into this ideological grouping.
 * Gay Rights Supporters - The Gay Rights grouping consists of people identifying as strictly pro-LGB and T equality. Most tend to be non-religious voters, many are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender themselves, or supporting of family members or friends who are LGBT, or support equal protection under the law clauses of the Constitution. Gay Rights Supporters also tend to have affiliations with, are part of, or in someway support human rights organizations, are against racism and commonly highly liberal in their opinions. The census approximates 30 million voters would fall into this ideological grouping.
 * Liberal Religious - The largest grouping within right leaning religious ideologies, Liberal Religious are classified as voters who tend to be religious, specifically Christian identifying, who however support LGBT equality and are against discrimination, or view that LGBT matters are not of their concern or none of their business and don't have any reason to fight against it or hold no opinion. Nearly all are still anti-abortion in view. Census data approximates 45 million voters would fall into this ideological grouping.
 * Nationalists - Nationalists are individuals who tend to be extremely pro-Everetti sovereignty. Most of them took part or directly supported the separatist movements and secession that followed to form the Union of Everett and states and provinces that later joined the Union. All are gun owners and easily fall into a classification as 2nd Amendment'rs, however, are more-so extremely against government intrusion and anti-United States. In more recent years, this mentality has grown significantly with U.S. aggression towards the Union of Everett, especially after the Sandy Hook and Boston Bombing terrorist attacks. Nationalists can commonly be anti-immigration, particularly from the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. Census data approximates around 3 million voters would fall into this grouping.
 * Mexican Identity - Voters of this grouping tend to be pro-immigration, especially in regards to immigration from Central and South America or the Caribbean. These voters are strongly supportive of being part of the Union of Everett, are against racism and discrimination and commonly supportive of workers rights and unions. Although other ethnicities can fall into this grouping, the vast majority are of Hispanic ethnic background. This grouping tends to overlap into 2nd Amendment'rs, are pro-drug war and tend to also be Liberal Religious. The census approximates 20 to 30 million voters fall into this grouping.

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