Bowlby Park is among the areas where the city of Redmond hopes to make ADA-related improvements in the future.

OK, one more column about politics. But this time about “party” politics.

I’m feeling more and more like Gramps from the movie “Moonstruck.” I’m just so confused. It used to be, back in the day, we had Republicans and Democrats. A few years back, I noticed that independent, Freedom Party, Libertarian and even the Communist Party, among others, began to show up on ballots. Then, more recently, up popped the tea party. I was delighted, and even wrote a column about it a few years ago. Bottom line: I was not going to get tea and crumpets, but just political conservatism to the Nth degree. So I decided to go back to coffee.

Now we have lots of independents to go with our Democrats and Republicans. But I got to thinking that we really should have lots of parties. Not just because many countries do, but because our own country is so divided and so much yelling and anger is going around during this election cycle. So I propose we have some additional parties, so there is at least one party for everyone interested in politics.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., could lead the “If the president is for it, we are against it” party.

Bernie Sanders is an obvious choice for the Social Democratic party.

There must be someone named Lipton around to head the tea party.

For the ultra-far right, how about the “Right Wing Republican Conservative” party? Is this what Ted Cruz was born for?

And for the exact opposite, why not the “Liberal Democratic Lefties” party? Hillary Clinton’s party home?

Donald Trump must be the natural leader of some new party. Could it be the “Here’s the Deal” party?

As you can see, I’m having way too much fun with this revolutionary idea. Just think of the fun new presidents, senators, Congress and party leaders could have trying to put together coalitions of the various parties. Coalitions of parties would, of course, be necessary to get any legislation passed and hence keep the country running, hopefully, in some semblance of order and purpose that serves the common good. But that may be too much to ask, given the trouble we are having now of getting any kind of cooperation from the two main parties we have.

Oh, another fun party could be headed by Bill Murray, and of course it would be the “Party Hearty Marty” party.

Along those lines, I leave you with this party to be headed by wife: “The Party Party.”

— Miles Hutchins is a retired Redmond resident who grew up in Central Oregon. Contact him at milesredmond@gmail.com.