Founding fathers were smarter than us.

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The founding fathers knew what our fate would be and they tried hard to warn us. No one listens to the warnings though. Too late now.

Years ago I left the Republican party. I am not in the Constitution party but for a while I registered as unaffiliated. I used to tell people that I was in George Washington's party because he didn't believe in political parties. I know that the Constitution party will never produce a candidate that will ever win an election at the federal level and probably not at the state level. However if I find the Constitution party has become a sell out then I will go back to the George Washington party of unaffiliated.

As a retired Combat Veteran this is not what I personally fought for. I did not desire a single party to have uncontrolled unchecked power to defy our liberties and freedoms. In fact I served for the exact opposite. It is terribly sad that many "Flag waving" Patriots believe that a political party cares about them. They care about power. Plain and simple. I support the banning of all parties limiting election amounts to 10 million period and getting rid of outside lobbying. Term limits would help but that would make us a republic and many still think we are a Democratic political system. They have not paid attention to WHY things are in place that the founding fathers predicted and tried to plan against. The political parties found loopholes to trick the system that was intended very specifically to limit them.

Thank you for your service. I appreciate and respect your service and especially the reason you served.

I never enlisted. There weren't any wars or conflicts when I was old enough. I turned 18 in 1976. My father enlisted in the army in WWII. He was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne. He, fortunately for me, never saw combat. If he had been sent overseas there might have been a chance that I would not be here.

I agree with term limits. Ideally We The People should realize when a politician has been in too long but we don't. We just keep sending the same corrupt politicians back in office for decades.

I think we also need to restore the constitutional number of representatives. I understand that it was capped at 435 because of the size of the Congressional building. But there is no reason why we cannot go back to 1 representative for every 30,000 people. The representatives could stay in their district and be more accessible and accountable to their constituents. They can vote on legislation electronically. That way if he/she turns out to be scum we can personally contact them and let them know that their career is on the line.

It is not too much to ask for indeed. It may however be too late. The insane amounts of money the parties have been ingested and injected with from outside lobbying is hard to overcome and now greed has this Nation by the throat. It choked the life out of the Romans. It will choke us too.

Eight septillion nine hundred thirty sextillion three hundred eighty-three quintillion five hundred ninety-three quadrillion five hundred twenty-three trillion nine hundred forty-eight billion four hundred eighty-eight million four hundred three thousand two hundred forty-three. Also yes the two party system isn't the greatest.

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George Washington, wise though he was, was pretty much on his own in this. The other Founders didn’t follow through.

As soon as he relinquished the Presidency, partisan politics took hold (yes, even among other Founding Fathers), and it hasn’t let up since. The Election of 1800 is still one of the most bitter contests in our history, though the 2020 elections sure are giving it a run for its money.

Only Washington’s godlike stature and universal acclaim as the general who virtually singlehandedly delivered the colonies their freedom allowed him to carry the respect of the entire country regardless of party.

I would love for us to be able to put aside partisanship and speak with our fellow citizens as Americans first, Republicans and Democrats second, but I’m afraid we need a leader of tremendous talent to unite us in that way, and the conditions that created Washington’s uniquely non-partisan presidency no longer exist.

Heck, even Abraham Lincoln was despised in his time by a huge portion of the country (not least the ex-Confederates) to the point that an assassin’s bullet ended his life. Despite the fact Lincoln is now considered one of the greatest if not the greatest President ever.

Human beings are flawed, short-sighted, temperamental, tribalistic, and bad about making accurate historical judgments in real-time.

Well said!

So true of the Democrats.

Fascism is bad.