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Today we have an ideology-based politic in this country and all partisans these days appear to be fighting on behalf of the oppressors and the independent parties are few who can stand up against the two major parties. It's not Republicans fighting Democrats. It is the political parties fighting against the american people.
I sometimes think the only way American partisans will change in their thinking is if at some point, they are lying face down in a pool of their own blood. Maybe then the people who manipulate facts and allow themselves to be manipulated will come to the resolution that they are supporting a class of people and working against the mass of American people. Of course it may never come to that point. That point of revolution.

George Washington was aware of the danger of political parties. He warned against political parties in his farewell address. No one takes him to heart, though. Just like they haven't taken Dwight Eisenhower seriously in 1960, when he warned against the military indistrial complex.
It can be seen, without any effort, that political parties are to some degree corrupt. They quickly realize that money, most money does not come from their constituents. The money comes from the special interests and few congressmen can deny their dreams of joining the upper class and few will deny the requsts of special interests.
As it is, the American people, the typical americans just want to work and raise their families. But the politicians have ideas on how to spend their tax money.
Infrastructure, which has a nice ring to it, but the groups that
donated money to campaigns have expectations. They are usually chosen to
work on the infrastructure and be productive.
My expectation is that the political parties will not survive the next ten years. The christian conservatives, some call them jihadists, will spin off from the republican party and perhaps form their own party. Perhaps they will no longer participate at all being as how they have been used and abused by the republicans over the last 25 years. The democrats will split in two, the corporate wing of the party will split off and join the republicans. The liberals will carry on as they always have. There is a significant group of disillusioned people who have become so fed up with the system, they no longer participate. The libertarians will probably join the republicans, and the left-leaning ones will join the new Democrats. All will be well after the change. For a short time.

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