Don't look now, but it's already here, and there IS a major party behind it: the Democrats. And if Obama is re-elected, it's here forever.
I was going to say the same thing!
The CPUSA (Communist Party of USA) has stopped running their own candidate for President. The offering by the Democrat Party is good enough for them. They also take a LOT of credit for pressing the ideas that currently drive the party -- union activity, civil unrest (99% thing), government involvement in schools, Obama-care, social security, centralized planning, etc.
There are TWO major distinctions between the politics of Americans running for office (and a thousand minor ones, that may or may not be in keeping with the TWO). They are:
1. Our RIGHTS and FREEDOM stem from the created order, as ordained by God.
2. We have only the rights and freedom granted to us by our overlords and masters who rule us.
The Declaration of Independence for America lays out the position as well as any document formulated by the hand of man through all of history:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,[75] that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The converse is the philosophical idea of Plato, from "Republic" where a nation of philosopher-kings rules over the populace, with all decisions made on behalf of the populace BY the P-Ks; from Thomas More's "Utopia" where an island is formed (see Ron Paul) by carving out a section of land apart from any other nation and a government of King Utopa, and where all the people are tightly controlled to produce for each other's needs; from Hobbes, "Leviathan," where a nation of persons was ruled by a sovereign who had all rights, and where the people worked communally to further their national efforts, but had no individual rights; and from Marx's "Communist Manifesto" where the proletariat rebel against the bourgeoisie to form a working man's class that would rule by union and centralized planning.
Of the candidates currently running, ONLY Santorum has a clue about the true nature of the efforts. Romney, Paul, Gingrich, and CERTAINLY Obama, are on the side of the Utopians, and whatever other conservative values or planks they offer, they are yet more like socialists than not. Again, it is not the surface issues that drive the major difference between candidates, it is the underlying philosophy, and that philosophy is what DRIVES THEIR LATER ACTIONS, hence the flip-flopping, broken promises, increase of government control, etc.