Importance of Political Parties in Today's Democracy
             We live in a society where people are able to voice their opinions on any subject they wish. Because of the rights guaranteed to us in our constitution, every individual can make their ideas known to the community. Naturally people with similar views and ideas would tend to form groups together. These groups, or parties are a vital part of our political system.
             One person alone cannot really change anything. Sometimes a unique idea or demonstration performed by one person can get attention but usually it takes a group to be noticed. It is easy for groups (the larger the better, i.e. Democrats/Republicans) to be acknowledged if they have an idea to propose to government. The way these groups are acknowledged is they are able to find many people who share an idea and show that there is a large majority of people who feel strongly about an issue. This then has an effect on government because the government officials who wish to be re-elected try to implement the idea brought up into the government so as to gain the votes of the people in that party.
             Without political parties our government would not be able to exist. The heads of different political parties run our government. If there were no parties than whoever ran for elected positions would win solely on luck and the amount of money that they spent campaigning so that they could expose themselves to as many people as possible.
             Especially if people with many similar ideas ran against each other the winner would be based on who was more exposed rather than who was more qualified. Going to vote would be near impossible because of the amount of candidates that would be on the ballot.
             When people associate with a political party they receive more than just a person to vote for. Meetings on town, state and national levels can be attended in which an individual can give input to their party leaders. ...