The number of independent voters continues to climb to 45% according to the Gallop polls while Democrats and Republicans continue to drop due to the following;

1. Government corruption – politicians give jobs and contracts based on partisan favoritism as opposed to the best and most competitive. Monopolies continue to grow by buying out and silencing the competition. Cryptocurrency is used to finance illegal activities and corruption causing inflation and corruption. Campaigns are financed by unscrupulous billionaires which control congress
2. Mass Surveillance – the big tech monopolies continue to spy on and rip off the general public of their intellectual property. AI/5G/Mind reading go unregulated so the Government and Big Tech can continue their unconstitutional practices for profit
3. Weaponized Justice system – the DOJ does not enforce justice fairly and attacks critics. Heavy handed enforcement practices by ICE results in attacks on immigrants and citizens alike while Cybercrimes have doubled due to unregulated AI.
4. Dictatorship – the President often uses illegal executive orders to bypass congress and ignores public opinion
5. Tariffs and trade issues continue to raise prices and worsen affordability and affect the economy
6. Unregulated AI continues to threaten jobs and create turmoil from mass surveillance, cyber crimes, insider trading/benefit, false advertising, etc. Billionaires and Monopolists talk about the benefits to all while hoarding all of the profits for themselves.
7. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza go on while thousands of civilians die needlessly due to the actions of tyrants

The best way to correct these issues is for the media to better educate the public about them so the Public can Protest, Boycott and Strike (PBS) the people responsible. They are not adequately reporting them because both parties are benefiting from Mass surveillance, corrupt Government and a biased Justice System.

The independent party could help correct the situation if they were better organized and financed, and had more moderate representatives in Congress that better represent the general public. Despite the fact that 45% of the public is independent, there are only 2 senators and 0 representatives that are independent, and only one would qualify as moderate. I find that to be extremely incredulous, but moderate independent candidates are intentionally censored by the established parties and the silicon valley mafia/social media.

In addition, both parties are beginning to resemble each other. The far right and the far left are both behaving like authoritarian, top-down, government controlled dictatorships that use executive orders and mass surveillance to benefit party extremists and silicon valley, rather than the general public (see moderate policy).

In a true Democracy, 45% of Congress would be made up of independent candidates that represented the General Public. This would likely take campaign finance reform to achieve.