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Musk & America Party

Elon Musk declared the launch of his new political party on Saturday. Musk on Saturday appeared to confirm his intention to launch his “America Party,” after posting a poll to his X account the prior day asking followers whether or not he should create the new party.

“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he wrote. “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”

So here is my take…

  1. I doubt that he can do it. The Republicans and Democrats have rigged the political system in the US to realistically only allow for two parties. Why? Because both parties are run for a single reason…power. The power to advance their party’s particular agenda. And that agenda is seldom, if ever, in the best interests of the US citizenry. A simple check on bills that have passed can confirm that. The best view of political parties comes from our first President and Founding Father.
George Washington’s Warning about Political Parties!
  1. I am tempted, very tempted, to become a founding member of the new America Party. Why? Simply because it would not be the Republican Party or Democrat Party. And that my friend is a good enough reason for me. Maybe.

Why am I so against each party…Republican and Democrat? Well, both love war, both are part of the military-industrial complex, both love putting this country deeper and deeper into debt, both love to restrict Second Amendment rights, both love to infringe on the 4th Amendment, both love to restrict and/or eliminate due process, both love taking hard-earned money from taxpayers, both love wasting the money they take from taxpayers…need I go on?

Sooner or later people, hopefully the vast majority, will realize just how badly, how intentionally, both parties are hell-bent on destroying the Republic. Maybe, just maybe, before it is too late. But I doubt it.

Whatever the actual outcome of the America Party is…I hope it shakes both the Republican and Democrat Parties to their cores! And as a huge side benefit…maybe wake Americans up to our awful situation. The best outcome would be the utter destruction of both parties and return to a system envisioned by our Founding Fathers.

Let’s see if he can do it. Otherwise…

2 responses to “Musk & America Party”

  1. rghatch Avatar
    rghatch

    As for Musk and another political party is this article from Epoch Times
    Best,Russ

    Why Musk’s Bid to Create a Viable Third Party Could Be Difficult
    Third parties in America are almost as old as the Republic itself—as are the difficulties they face in making an impact on the national stage.
    Joseph Lord & Jackson Richman 7/9/2025|Updated: 7/9/2025
    http://www.theepochtimes.com/us/why-musks-bid-to-create-a-viable-third-party-could-be-difficult-5885214?utm_source
    News Analysis
    Elon Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump has led the Tesla CEO to announce the formation of a third party—but that effort is much easier said than done.
    “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” Musk wrote on X, which he owns, on July 5.
    He referenced a poll he posted to his account asking X users whether he should move forward with the plan. By a margin of roughly 65 percent, users expressed support for the idea.
    Third parties in America are almost as old as the Republic itself—as are the difficulties they face in making an impact on the national stage. Nevertheless, non-major parties have played a critical role in American political life, with a pronounced impact on elections across U.S. history.
    Past experience suggests that Musk could have a tough battle in building the America Party into a viable competitor to Republicans and Democrats.
    So far, he hasn’t filed any paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to make it official—leaving it still unclear how serious the tech billionaire is about the push.
    Here’s what he’ll be up against if he moves forward with the idea.
    ‘Spoilers’ Mindset
    Third parties have long had a reputation in American politics—and not necessarily a good one.
    They’re often seen as “spoilers,” or “wasted votes” by supporters of the two major parties. Third party voters, meanwhile, often describe their vote as conscience-based or as a protest vote.
    Overcoming this mindset will be the America Party’s first major hurdle.
    After all, legitimacy is a key challenge behind organizing a third party, Richard Groper, a political science professor at California State University–Los Angeles, told The Epoch Times.
    “Remember, this country has never had in its history a viable third party that has lasted more than like one cycle,” he said. “So is it going to be kind of a fly-by-night enterprise, or is it going to make a sustained difference in the American polity?”
    Winner-Take-All Elections
    Though Americans increasingly begrudge the two-party system, according to Gallup polling, it’s nearly baked into the way that most U.S. elections are handled.
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    While many other parliamentary systems use proportional representation models—in which a party wins roughly the same percentage of seats as they received votes over a given area—U.S. states use district-based, winner-take-all models. This means that it’s possible for a third party to receive double-digit support statewide but take no seats.
    Musk has indicated that the America Party’s first focus would be on winning a handful of key seats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives during the 2026 midterm elections.
    These members would “serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws,” Musk wrote on X.
    That said, third-party state-level victories aren’t unprecedented: 2020 Democratic candidate Andrew Yang’s Forward Party, founded in 2021, has also managed to win 46 state-level offices so far.
    In 1998, meanwhile, Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota.
    Electoral College
    The bigger long-term challenge for Musk’s party is the Electoral College, which heavily favors the current system.
    To win the U.S. presidency, a candidate must receive 270 electoral votes, or else the election goes to the House for adjudication.
    That favored the development of a system with two roughly opposite parties at any given time, as elections with more than two major candidates are less likely to reach 270 electoral votes.
    The massive party organizational and financial structures formed to support the major parties’ presidential aspirations, meanwhile, have increased barriers for other parties to break into down-ballot politics.
    Funding
    Aside from these systemic challenges, Musk’s bid would also face a series of more concrete challenges, starting with funding.
    However, U.S. election finance law limits how much he could contribute to the party or affiliated PACs directly: Federal Election Commission Rules cap it at $41,300 in annual contributions to a national party committee, $3,300 to individual candidates, and $5,000 to PACs.
    He could overcome this through the use of “Super PACs,” which allow unlimited contributions but not coordination with candidates, parties, or campaigns.
    Finding Candidates
    Just as money can’t buy everything, Musk’s wealth can only do so much in elections: The America Party will need solid candidates, Groper said.
    “He’s got to have some real-name people with him on his ticket, some people who have some draw because he has the financial backing,” he said. “He needs good, viable, legitimate candidates.”
    Skeptical of Musk’s third-party push, Austin Petersen—a political commentator who mounted a bid for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in 2016 and a bid for the Republican Senate nomination in 2018—emphasized this point as well.
    “It is so difficult to try and find a good person who actually will be able to get votes in a district, because you have to find someone who is already known, well-liked, has a little bit of name ID, has … this chemical soup … of qualities, in order to make a legitimate, credible run.”
    Ballot Access
    That funding won’t do much good if he can’t overcome the other major procedural hurdle: gaining access to the ballot in all 50 states.
    Under the U.S. Constitution, every state is permitted to handle its federal elections internally, with a few statutory exceptions. That means there are as many election regimes as there are states.
    From paperwork to signature requirements to other bureaucratic hurdles, working with all 50 state governments to receive ballot access has long been a key hurdle for third parties. Signature-gathering alone can cost tens of millions of dollars.
    To this day, only a single third party—the Libertarian Party—has consistently managed to appear on all 50 ballots since 1980. Even the Green Party, the second most successful third party, at its peak ballot access in 2016, appeared on just 45 state ballots.
    Bipartisan Appeal?
    Given that Musk hitched his political identity to the Trump campaign in 2024, he’d face another major hurdle: convincing members of both parties to back the America Party.
    Though many of Musk’s ideas—reduction of spending, regulation, and waste in entitlement programs, embracing cryptocurrency, and supporting gun rights—may seem more likely to siphon votes from Republicans, Democrats are also taking the competition seriously.
    “My sense of it is that there’s definitely frustration in both parties right now with a two-party system, and it could be successful,” Martin said, citing Musk’s resources.
    Peterson objected to arguments that Musk’s party would necessarily take votes only from the GOP.
    Depending on the candidates and districts involved, “they could just as easily take as many votes from a Democrat as they could from a Republican,” Peterson said. “That’s just the facts.”
    And Musk does have some positions that could appeal to centrists and Democrats.
    For instance, he’s pushed for the United States to subsidize and develop clean energy and related infrastructure.
    He’s also indicated that releasing the files related to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s death and criminal enterprise will be a top priority for the party.
    “How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?” Musk wrote in a July 8 post on X.
    In response to a question about whether this would “rank high on the America Party’s list,” Musk replied with a “100” emoji, indicating agreement with the idea.
    Trump, meanwhile, expressed confidence to reporters during a July 8 Cabinet meeting that Musk’s party would “help us.”
    “It will probably help. Third parties have always been good for me. I don’t know about Republicans but for me.”
    President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 8, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images
    Other Republicans aren’t so sure.
    Allies
    Some unexpected allies have already indicated openness to the concept.
    “I’m in touch with Elon and his team, and I’ve said to them, ‘Look, anyone who wants to challenge the duopoly has a friend in me,’” Yang told Axios.
    Some Libertarian operatives, as well as the 2024 group No Labels, have also expressed interest.
    Others are less certain.
    Peterson said that Musk’s resources would be better spent working within the GOP.
    “I think it’s best for [Musk] to stay within the MAGA coalition … and build a budding coalition of people who agree with him in the Republican Party,” Peterson said, citing figures like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who shared Musk’s criticisms of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
    U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) speaks to the press outside the U.S. Capitol, as the only Republican to vote against passing the House legislation to fund the government through Sept. 30 and avert a week-end shutdown, on March 11, 2025. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
    “There are paths to accomplishing what he wants to accomplish, but not that path. It’s the wrong path,” Peterson said, emphasizing that a focus within GOP primaries may work better.
    Despite the challenges he faces, Musk himself has been blasé about the hurdles.

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  2. rghatch Avatar
    rghatch

    Dear A.H.,
    It was with some degree of bemusement of seeing Elon Musk’s intentions of forming a new political party.
    Creating a “third” – or as I would like to call it – an “alternative” party – does have its challenges.
    It does take time to do so with a lot of manpower and funding (something of which I think that Elon can thus provide)
    As you noted, the republicans and democrats have created their own exclusive club and don’t want any new members.
    As the political commentator Pat Buchanan has noted: “The republican and democrat parties are opposing wings of the same bird of prey.” They are the Uniparty, a perfect manifestation of “professional wrestling” where each play by play move and then final outcome of each match is planned far in advance.
    If Elon Musk is looking for a better political party, he could have looked no further than the Constitution Party. Originally the US Taxpayers Party, it evolved into that name at the end of the 1990’s.
    If you are seeking to find a party that adheres to the Constitution and our Founders’ original intent, with limited government, balanced budget, principled elected politicians, state’s rights and so many more issues: That is what the Constitution Party represents. And we already have ballot access in about half of the US of A..
    As a side note, I was the State Chairman for four years for the state of Utah and I am presently a county chairman. Importantly, our state party can only support candidates who are not only members of the Constitution Party, but are members in good standing as well, with the three criteria for such listed in our Bylaws.
    And yes, I know, the warnings about having political parties, which our own party membership does struggle over. But how to you get any kind of traction without some kind of organization?
    I wish Elon well in this endeavor. But it will definitely be an uphill battle. It will have to not only grab America’s attention, but also a new sense of purpose as well for it to gain its place in the political landscape of the united States.
    I may be a bit biased, but I believe that it would have been even better if he had already seen his desires for change by coming to the Constitution Party. With his influence and financial resources, the sky could have been the limit with an already recognized and principled political party.
    Best, Russ

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