Independent Calls for End To Bipartisan Politics

Annie Loyd, speaking at Columbia College, New York, NY. (1st photo)
Interview with Annie and Sallie, moderator for cable program "Madam President." (3rd photo)

Independent Calls for End To Bipartisan Politics
By Maggie Astor
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 4, 2008 in the Columbia Spectator

As Benjamin Franklin famously said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Annie Loyd, an independent Congressional candidate from Arizona, quoted the founding father’s famous exhortation to kick off the Columbia College Student Council Campus Life Committee’s “Independent Night” on Saturday in Wien. Loyd called on students to break out of the country’s bilateral political system and asserted that so long as Democratic and Republican candidates are voters’ only choices, there will be no real political progress.
“Different masks, same thing,” Loyd said. “If you don’t like the way your shoes fit, what do you do—try to reshape them? To heck with it, I’m done with those shoes! You don’t keep going back to them because you really think it’s going to be different this time.”
Loyd spent much of her speech urging students to examine the full range of options for enacting political change. Read the rest of the story.