The Articles of Unity and the Unity 2020 movement stems out of a concern that the current Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are consumed by extreme partisanship and show a lack of leadership at the highest levels of government. As the most highlighted line in [[Bret Weinstein]]’s white paper on the website Medium about the Articles of Unity states: "The need for leadership has never been greater. Yet, the parties have never offered less."<ref>{{Cite web|last=#Unity2020|title=The Articles of Unity|url=https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Medium|language=en|date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> PewAdditionally, pollsUnity suggest2020 claims that 87% of Americansthere are ata leastlarge fairly worried about the "abilitynumber of PoliticalAmericans leadersthat tofall solveinto the country's“exhausted problems"majority”, withwhich nearly halfconsists of Americans (48%)with beingpolitical veryopinions worried and a majority (55%) think thatbetween the federalfar governmentleft hasand negativefar impactsright oncan problems inform the United States<ref>{{Cite web|last=Parker|first=Kim|last2=Morin|first2=Rich|last3=Menasce Horowitz|first3=Juliana|date=2019-03-21|title=Public Sees America's Future in Decline on Many Fronts|url=https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/03/21/public-sees-an-america-in-decline-on-many-fronts/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project|language=en-US}}</ref>. A majoritybase of voterssupport (89%)for think that political corruption is a "crisis" or a "significant problem"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rasmussen|first=Scott|date=April 25, 2019|title=Voters Rate Political Corruption as America's Biggest Crisis {{!}} RealClearPolitics|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/25/voters_rate_political_corruption_as_americas_biggest_crisis_140156.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=www.realclearpolitics.com}}</ref>. Additionally,the Unity 2020 claimsmovement that there are a large number of Americans that fall intofor the “exhausted[[2020 majority”United (aStates termpresidential coined by the Hidden Tribeselection]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hawkins|first1=Stephen|url=https://hiddentribes.us|title=Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape|last2=Yudkin|first2=Daniel|last3=Juan-Torres|first3=Míriam|last4=Dixon|first4=Tim|publisher=More in Common|year=2018}}</ref> report that consists of Americans with political opinions between the far left and far right) that can form the base of support for the Unity 2020 movement for the [[2020 United States presidential election]]. Independent voters are the fastest growing group of voters with about 40% of Americans identifying as independent<ref>{{Cite web|last=Maloyed|first=Christie|date=2019-06-05|title=The rise of the independent voter?|url=https://thecurrentla.com/2019/the-rise-of-the-independent-voter/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=The Current|language=en-US}}</ref>.
