Reasons to oppose the Democratic and Republican parties

Where to begin? The possibilities are endless.

• They both insist that they know the answers, but neither has the intestinal fortitude to honestly compare their ideas against the opposing ideas (weak moral character; fear of intellectual competition). Obviously, neither has any answers. If either party had, we would not be in our messes because they both had multiple chances to get it right and they both failed every single time. All we get is spin.
• The Democratic and Republican parties both vehemently deny that special interest money has no effect on anything. (lobbyists, not voters, control politics) Politicians say it only buys "access". Yeah right, pigs fly too.
• In the matter of the current economic meltdown, their own partisans concede they both failed, but that has no impact on or relevance to politicians in Washington today. Things like that just get ignored. (oops, we goofed)
• Although the Democratic and Republican parties both vehemently deny it, many, probably nearly all, elected federal level politicians serve their own self-interest before the public interest. (Me first, lobbyists second, you taxpayers, last)
• Although America had it all at the end of world war 2 and the rest of the world was in the sewer, so to speak, we are now in deep, deep trouble. (recent history) How on Earth did that happen in less than 70 years? This ain't the Roman Empire, that's for sure.

• According to a Republican darling, the Democrats and Republicans didn't just fail us, they betrayed us. (betrayed)
• Nobody in either party can explain why so much money is in the political system. The reasonable conclusion is that it is there to buy votes, nothing else. (only one logical conclusion) 
• Neither party has any convincing idea of how to create jobs. Both just blow their partisan talking point drivel at us while providing no details or proof of past success. (what jobs strategy?) They provide no proof or details because they have none.
• Both parties are stupefied by their own infallible political and/or religious ideology. That comes despite the current profound unhappiness with both parties. If their ideology was so freaking infallible, then why did they both fail so miserably? (blind, obstinate ideologues can't see anything) Liberal or conservative ideology backed by success is just fine. Ideology backed by failure, which is exactly what we have today, deserves to be tossed out of power with extreme prejudice.

• We had plenty of time and warning that we needed to prepare ourselves. Our elected leaders chose to do nothing in favor of reelection and narrow partisan goals. (we were fully warned) 
• There are more than just the narrow three ways to look at politics, i.e., liberal, conservative or compromise. The world is much, much bigger than that. Intelligent policy can come from none of those. (smarter ways to do things) The right and left both have a track record of failure, so why would compromise necessarily be any better? No wonder our politics failed us.

The list could go on and on. All of those points are reasonable and easily defensible. Collectively they make it clear that the Democratic and Republican parties didn't just fail us, they betrayed us.

Of course, you need to decide for yourself. Speaking for myself, Democrats and Republicans govern without my consent. In view of their failures, corruption and incompetence, they have no legitimacy or moral authority.