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[–] 14643147? [S] 0 points 38 points 38 points (+38|-0) ago
I think parties are a load of shit anyway. Each candidate should have to stand on his or her own merit and record. At this moment in history, Democrats=Communists, clear and simple.
[–] 14643862? 1 point 16 points 17 points (+17|-1) ago
I have been registered independent since I originally registered when I was 18. Simply because any candidate should stand on their own. I would never vote for someone BECAUSE they are republican or democrat.
[–] 14644448? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Agreed!
[–] 14643821? 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
[–] 14644443? [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Our jury system requires and trusts the judgement of randomly selected citizens, I don't see why our gov't couldn't be run the same way. How much worse could randomly selected people do? Especially if you gave them a very nice salary and guaranteed their job upon their return from duty. We wouldn't get 4,000 page bills that nobody has read but the lobbyists that wrote them, that's for sure.
[–] 14651886? ago
TL:DR Don't care if it was said by George Washington
[–] 14650057? ago
Thank you Patriot!
[–] 14645012? 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Democrats=Communists, it cannot be explained any simpler than that. Tell that to a Beto voter in TX and they go ballistic, but that guy is far-left communism trying to hide in disguise.
[–] 14646061? [S] 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
You're 100% correct. In this election, you have 2 choices, vote Democrat for communism, or Republican for patriotism/nationalism.
[–] 14643690? 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
This! I know of somebody who ran for state office (republican) several years ago, and to be officially supported by the Republican party, he had to fill out the survey answers in a particular way. I don't think he filled it out the way they told him to. He was completely turned off by that and never ran again.
[–] 14644325? [S] 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
The parties do not want honest candidates, they want criminals that they can incriminate and control, its all like two big mafia families, choose your poison. Apparently Q has cleaned up the Republican side good enough for now to get us to the next phase, I trust the plan.