Comments by "Fumble_ Brewski" (@fumble_brewski5410) on "Americans Desperate For A New Political Party" video.
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In 1943 Simone Weil, a French philosopher and mystic, concluded that political parties had become organizations dedicated to one purpose: “killing in all souls the sense of truth and justice.” In the United States, the two major political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War. Across Western Europe, political parties have turned parliaments into digital circuses, provoking waves of contempt among ordinary people.
When President George Washington took the oath of office in April of 1789, no political parties existed. Throughout the two terms of his presidency, Washington remained nonpartisan. President Washington expressed genuine concern in that “the alternate domination” of one political party over another, thereby allowing one party to enjoy temporary power over the government that would use it to obtain revenge on the other. He seriously felt that this tendency toward atrocities directed at the party out of power “…is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.” Washington understood that if “a wise people” did not do their duty to discourage and restrain the over-zealous development of political parties, it would be the end of America. And so, it appears, that's what we are facing.
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