So what is this really?

The Goose Party - a complimentary choice to the Two Party system

This party begins with a story: The story of the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, a fable from Aesop.

Simply put, the story is about a farmer who had a goose that he discovered could lay eggs of gold! After witnessing such a miracle, the farmer supposed there must be some amazing gold creating thing inside the goose, and decided to kill it and split open its insides to perhaps get all the gold at once, only to find the goose itself wasn't really any different than any other goose, and now he was left with only a dead goose, and no more golden eggs. The farmer had a good thing and ruined it.

We're going to use this story to tell another story.

America has a problem with power. It has had this problem for a while now, and while our forefathers expected trouble from a concentration of power in the hands of the few, and while they took steps to try and ensure power would be divided between three branches of government so that it could rest in the hands of the people through representation, they did not seem to account for another necessary division of power from MONEY.

And what makes money in our capitalist society? Business, of course!

• Business is the goose that lays golden eggs in our society,

• We are the farmers in the story. We work in businesses, own businesses, run businesses, and tax businesses so that we, the farmers, can benefit from the golden eggs that are laid.

• Golden eggs in our analogy include wealth, a good or a service; basically, anything of value. It means wages, equity, capital, production, and even tips, that come from working on the farm, keeping that goose healthy and producing.

Why else would we do it, right? Why else would we care about business at all if not to benefit from our efforts in supporting it? That's what the goose is for. That is the goose' function on the farm: 1) to thrive if it deserves to, 2) to continue to produce golden eggs the farmers need or want, and 3) for the farmers to have and use these golden eggs to live on and enjoy. There's no other reason the goose needs to exist, is there?

American political power over what goes on in the farm lies in the hands of all the farmers, every one of them, because that how representation works. I get a vote for my representative. You get a vote for your choice of representative. If we don't like what our representative is doing because they're not representing our interest, we vote for someone else to replace them. Anyone can do it. We, the people, make our will for America reality this way.

Yet, what does the farm seem to look like, just now? That goose is getting pretty hefty, isn't it? Why? Because there are some farmers who get more golden eggs than the rest of us simply because the goose is fatter. It's odd, I know, but somehow, "betting on the goose" became the thing that the goose was for rather than the golden eggs the rest of us actually needed to live on; in real terms, at the moment any business becomes publicly traded in the stock market, it's purpose is now to increase it's stock price, not to create good things for customers, and not to contribute to the livelihood of farmers.

This is a big part of why:

• medical treatment is so expensive and health insurance is terrible

• wages have almost never kept up with inflation for most of us.

• video games keep getting released before they're actually done

• your favorite bag of potato chips keeps getting smaller

Soon enough, the eggs were worse quality, the eggs were smaller, farmers were downsized, and the focus of production on the farm turned to doing whatever made the goose grow. It was great for efficiency, but it wasn't so great for a farm that appeared to have LOST THE PLOT. What's worse, the taxing farmers who were supposed to be running the farm were bribed to do otherwise, and here we are: a farm with a stupidly gigantic goose that exists merely to grow fatter, while giving the smallest amount of golden eggs possible to keep the farm running.

We like the farm, and we like the goose, but there’s something wrong with the way things are. If it really is up to us to make make things change through voting, then what we need to do is make this change through voting.