Yeah, that's right. It's time to abolish political parties in the USA. And yesterday is not soon enough.
We see the terrible consequences of party politics every single day. Our nation is more polarized and divided now than any other time since the American Civil War of 1861-1865. And it shows. The best we have gotten was gridlock, and the worst is yet to come if we stay on the self-destructive path we are on.
The elephant and jackass duopoly must end. They are both nothing more than two sides of the very same corporate- and oligarch-owned coin.
George Washington, the leader of the Founding Fathers and the first President of the United States, famously warned against political parties (or "factions", as he called them) in his Farewell Address. And he warned against them with the same fervor as he did against "foreign entanglements". And of course, no sooner did he leave office than did political parties (and foreign entanglements, to one degree or another) become the norm for America. He must really be spinning in his grave right now!
I don't believe that is so much political parties against political parties. Currently, it is establishment against populism. Donald Trump is the populist candidate against establishment candidates who don't represent the people. Donald Trump's populism is a good thing because he supports freedom, prosperity and friendly foreign relations with our geopolitical opponents. I don't believe that political parties should be abolished and a reason for that is because the importance of political parties has declined in favor of this different dynamic.
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