StarRaider
on double secret probation
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Used to be that way. Now one party is possessed by pure unadulterated evil. (A party I have voted for in the past by the way)
Noble sentiment but totally impractical. Political parties are an unavoidable feature of democracy all the way back to Ancient GreeceI see both major parties as hives of scum and filth. We can save so much money, influence, and bad commercial airtime by abolishing parties and having candidates run on their own unique platforms
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
GEORGE WASHINGTON FAREWELL ADDRESS | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1796
Always remember that it's the person, not the party.