Sunday Morning political-religious thought

I generally like to take a day of rest from politics and everything else, but I thought this was timely and applicable. If nobody minds I will do this from time to time and not just from my own religious philosophy. I have a copy of the Koran in English and if anybody has a thought for me to post from other philosophies or traditions, please let me know. I'd be happy to do so.

Matthew 5:17-18 KJV
"17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring for good fruit."

A two-party system doesn't yield very much good fruit so what can we infer about the character of a two-party system? Sure parties have the right of freedom of association, I'll vigorously defend that. However as readers here are intimately aware, the two-party system has taken upon itself to act as a publicly funded 'establishment' filter in the conduct of our elections. The bottom line is that arrangement is not yielding good fruit. By postulation, a two-party system as it exists now cannot ever yield good fruit.

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TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• S.D. keeps gaining independent voters (Argus Leader) Republicans have lost some of their edge in voter registration since 1970 in South Dakota, but the shift largely has gone to independents, not Democrats, election records suggest.
• Iowa expected to be electoral battleground (Waterloo and Cedar Falls Iowa News) One of the reasons Iowa is considered a battleground state is its large group of independent voters.

OPEN PRIMARIES

• CALIFORNIA: David Little: Protest vote cast in primary (Chico Enterprise-Record) Blindly going to the polls because the politicians tell us to only makes them believe we lemmings will do anything they say.
• OREGON: Petitioner scarcity-Voters will still consider as many as 10 initiatives on the ballot this fall (The Register-Guard)
• IDAHO: Beck, Ron Paul supporter join in bid to oust ID's GOP head (Idaho Press)

SOUTH CAROLINA FUSION
Obama Could Conceivably Be Listed Four Times on South Carolina Ballot (Ballot Access News) Probably Dems, SC Working Families Party, United Citizens Party, and possibly SC Independence Party...

CAMPAIGN
Black Americans mark mileston of Obama campaign (StarNewsOnline - Wilmington DE)

POLITICS AND RELIGION
On politics and faith/Let's face it: Religion looms large (Boulder Daily Camera) The Pew Forum reports that only about 16 percent of Americans define themselves as "unaffiliated" with any organized religion.