We Need a New Party--a Sea Party!

The Tea Party was formed in response to voter disappointment with the Republican Party, and George Bush. The name, I gather, is a spin-off of the Boston Tea Party, the New England Colonialists' rebellion against the British Tea Tax: dumping a lot of tea into the sea.

Wonderful as that was, in the 21st Century, the concept of dumping tea into the sea is rather environmentally irresponsible--imagine the poor creatures of the sea choking upon the bombardment of a cloudy mass of dried leaves rich in caffeine and other toxins!

As someone who is disappointed in the Democratic Party, and especially annoyed by the President's false promises of hope and change, I propose that somebody (not me; I'm not a politician) start a Sea Party.

My Tentative Vision of a Sea Party

CAMPAIGN APPROACH:

•  No corporate sponsors!  In fact, the less money used, the better!
  
• All campaigning must be done by grassroots methods (such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and the news networks)!
• No participation in debates, unless they are seriously conducted!
  
• Candidates would keep a running blog of logically and clearly written statements of their positions on various issues.

GENERAL PLATFORM:

• No pandering to major corporations.
• Quality public education for everyone, up through a four year college education.  We need to revise our education system, drastically, to address all sorts of issues with regard to lowering literacy rates and raising education requirements for the current job market as well as for (and more importantly) the character of our current civilization.  
• Universal healthcare that turns profit for no one but that allows for the building up of grant funds for medicinal, pharmaceutical, and similar research.
• Universal accessibility: funded by the government and large corporations.  No one should have to fight to have an interpreter (be it in signed or spoken languages), and wheel chairs should be able to go anywhere.
• Green, green, green!  Again, profit should not determine quality of life.  We need to drastically revise our transportation, industrialization, and other forms basic-lifestyle to become progressively environmentally supportive (not friendly, but nurturing).
• No religion: the president's job is to be a leader of the nation, not a priest.  It should not matter what his/her personal belief system is since he will do all he can to uphold the support of all belief institutions, within the parameters of federal law.
• Revised marriage codes: this should be done on a national level, allowing for same-sex as well as other forms of marriage.  The law should be based upon legal property and (scientifically supported) health issues, not upon moral codes.
•  And lots of other sane, rational, caring, good things!  So, I'll conclude my impossible wish list with this: a free, solar-powered computer for every household.