WE ARE BEYOND POLITICS

The Death of Political Parties: A Nation Beyond Politics

In today’s United States, political parties have become irrelevant. They are not obsolete in form. Parties still exist and hold conventions, raise funds, and nominate candidates, but they are irrelevant in purpose. The defining conflict in America is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. It is between democracy and autocracy. The rest is noise.

The Republican Party is dead. Whatever it once stood for, fiscal conservatism, states’ rights, and law and order are gone. In its place is a personality cult, wholly subservient to one man who lies, bullies, and controls through fear and repetition. The GOP has become the American mirror image of the authoritarian movements of the past, most notably, the rise of Hitler’s fascism in 1930s Germany. Today’s Republican Party has no platform, no vision beyond power, and no room for dissent. It has become the political arm of a dictator-in-waiting, and as such, it must be recognized not as a party but as a threat.

The Democratic Party, by contrast, is not a threat but impotent. Disorganized, timid, and paralyzed by decades of triangulation, it has failed to present a compelling vision of hope and renewal. It remains committed to politics as usual in a time when politics as usual is suicidal. The party has no singular leader capable of galvanizing the public, and there is no unifying message bold enough to match the existential threat we face. It is out of step with the urgency of the moment.

This is not a time for party loyalty. This is not about left or right. This concerns whether the United States will continue to be a democracy or descend into autocracy.

If you believe in freedom, in the rule of law, in the dignity of the individual, in fair elections and peaceful transitions of power, then you are already on one side of this fight. And it is a fight. A bare-knuckled, high-stakes fight against tyranny, corruption, censorship, and the criminalization of truth itself.

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the Trump-aligned far-right cabal have declared their intentions: to demolish the constitutional government of the United States and replace it with a system where power is centralized, opposition is punished, and religion replaces law. They do not hide this. They have published it.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain trapped in political tribalism, believing the next election will play out like those of the past. It will not. If there is one at all, the next election will be the last meaningful one if this threat is not met with action.

So stop talking about political parties. Don’t donate to them. Don’t wait for their permission to act. Ask yourself one question:

Do you stand for democracy or dictatorship?

Because that is the only choice left.

If you stand for democracy, then act like it. Get in the streets. Organize. Boycott. Write. Protest. Refuse to be silent. Refuse to be polite. Refuse to accept a future in which America becomes an authoritarian state governed by greed, fear, and God as a weapon.

The time for politics is over.

William James Spriggs