You guys, on both sides of the aisle we need to take this as a warning from Robert Kennedy, because he's onto something here. Check out his first and very simple political ad he just dropped in his run as an independent for president of the United States:
15 seconds.
15 seconds of arguing sides is all it took for me to sit back and realize, yeah, that's all we really do in this country: Argue.
And a lot of the time it's not even serious issues we're arguing about; they just want us divided and conquerable.
Take this in, folks. And stop always resorting to the "my side is right, their side is wrong" talking points. Cuz it's getting old.
I'm not saying RFK is the guy to vote for: This isn't an endorsement of him in any way. But he's right, and I think he agrees with guys like, you know, George Washington on this matter.
Oh, you didn't know Washington was disgusted by political factions and in-fighting? He dedicated a bunch of his farewell speech to it!
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.
Washington said this spirit of dividing into parties "unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature," and warned America to control it or it would get out of hand:
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.
TL;DR - When it's "us versus them," things get more heated and scary until people are so fed up with things that they appoint a dictator to carry their team to victory and that causes everyone's freedoms go out the window.
I dunno about you, but to me it looks like we're just about there.
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