In the final weeks leading up to the November midterm elections, unifying sentiments and bipartisan messaging will be scarce among both major political parties, to say the least. But the most bipartisan view, according to your reader responses, on the eve of those elections? It's a disdain for partisanship altogether.

Within days of our asking you, our readers, to weigh in on what you make of the massive bloc of independent voters who may very well decide the most consequential elections of the upcoming midterms, hundreds of proud independents wrote in to speak of their growing discontentment with a two-party system that has let them down and left them uninspired – and often disenfranchised.

Even among registered party voters, the two-party system we've come to know and distrust is losing support among voters of all ages, but especially among younger voters coveted by both parties.

Read a small sample of your responses below. For more opportunities to weigh in, visit usatoday.com/forum, leave us a voicemail at (202) 655-3923 or drop us a note at forum@usatoday.com.

In 50 years of voting, neither party earned my trust

I first registered as an independent over 50 years ago when they lowered the voting age to 18, and I didn't know enough about either party to pick one.

Over the years, neither party ever stood out as deserving of my commitment, so I remained with no party affiliation. My ballots have always been a mix of candidates. In the past 20 or so years, I have observed a decline in both parties to a self-serving, lock-step mentality that is only interested in obtaining and maintaining power, controlling voters through unethical constraints on who can vote, and fostering anger against the other side.

As a group, we are marginalized. Clearly, when we make up such a large percentage of the voting bloc, we should have more power. To further the insult, our taxes help pay for all the "public" elections, yet many of us cannot vote in the critical primary elections because they are “private.” Florida, where I reside, is one example of a completely closed primary state.........

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