Does America Need a Third Political Party? David Jolly

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Growing numbers of voters are fed up with politics as usual. In a recent survey, 62% of Americans say a third party is needed — up 5% from September of last year, and the highest it has ever been since Gallup polls first asked the question nearly twenty years ago. Our podcast guest, former two-term Florida Congressman David Jolly, says it's time to reexamine the system that reinforces the entrenched power of both the Republican and Democratic parties. Last year, Jolly was named Executive Chairman of the Serve America Movement (SAM), a growing organization that exists in some states as a third party, and in others as a non-partisan political reform group that backs office holders who work across party lines. SAM calls itself a big tent political movement that brings people together who have different ideologies but shared political principles. In this episode, David Jolly makes the case for his movement's ambitious goal: fixing our broken politics in America. "Multiparty democracies give greater voice to more people," David tells us. "We have allowed the two major parties to protect the duopoly themselves. The one thing that today's Democratic and Republican parties agree on is 'let's create the rules of the game in a way that we are only two major participants.'"

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0:00.0	Growing numbers of voters are fed up with politics as usual.
0:04.6	In a recent survey, 62% of Americans said a third party is needed.
0:10.2	The highest number since the question was first asked nearly 20 years ago.
0:14.9	Does the political system need reform and renewal from outside the Republican and Democratic parties?
0:21.2	From Common Ground Committee, our podcast is Let's Find Common Ground.
0:31.6	I'm Richard Davies.
0:33.3	And I'm Ashley Miltite.
0:35.5	Today's guest is former two-term Florida congressman, David Jolly,
0:39.7	who was a Republican and is now the leader of a third party.
0:44.0	Last year, David Jolly was named Executive Chairman of the Serve America Movement or Sam.
0:50.2	He says Sam is different from the two big parties in several crucial ways.
0:55.7	David Jolly, thanks for joining us on Let's Find Common Ground.
1:00.4	Hey, it's great to be with you today.
1:02.4	David, where are you right now?
1:03.9	I'm in Florida. We have a baby do in the next week, so we're thrilled here at home,
1:08.9	but we're not going anywhere.
1:10.6	Wow, congratulations.
1:12.4	Thank you. Thank you. Our two-year-old went from loving the idea to hating it almost overnight.
1:17.4	Since that was recorded, the baby was born.
1:21.3	Theater, Wilson, Jolly. Good news. And again, congratulations.
1:27.1	And now that interview with David Jolly, Richard, you asked the first question.
1:32.3	Our politics are dominated by two parties and have been for well over 150 years.
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