BIG THANKS to Awilda Martinez who suggested this topic when we were polling for fan pick episodes! It's been a while since we've made a fan pick and they're always some of my favorite videos. Enjoy! ~Danielle
I missed you're content! I'm glad you're back! I've learned soooo much from you're channel! And honestly you're videos have taught me to better explain some political and social beliefs I have!
Fun fact: In addition to Danielle's brilliance, Meredith Danko, our script editor, was the head writer for the Mental Floss YT channel for 6 years. The Origin content team would kill at trivia night! -Sheridan
its amazing how so many previous presidents and political figures from decades or even hundreds of years ago have warned against so many of the things that we are seeing happening today and in many cases have become the norm in American society, like how Eisenhower warned against the rise of the military industrial complex and the drafters of the constitution warned against the use of foreign aid to help a politician get elected, but those lessons have long since been forgotten
Amanda LaDouceur Thats the problem right there. Your goal shouldnt be to get rid of the two party system but to make things better for voters which ranked choice doesnt do
@@christiansoldier77 your statement is literally directly contrary to the founder's goals and ideals for our republic. please, next time, try harder to comprehend what is being said in the video. there's a lot of big words, but I have faith that you can do it.
It's become less and less common once Republican operatives determined that they needed to create an alternative reality and prevent crimes from undoing a president, post-Nixon. Through deregulating and expanding talk radio, and then going all in on cable TV like FoxNews, they have been able to construct a fantasy land for their voters to reside in. Studies demonstrate that FoxNews watchers aren't just ignorant but actually very wrong. They demonstrated that you would know more about the news of the world if you watch no news at all than if you watched FoxNews. In the various court cases against talk radio and FoxNews personalities, they argue over and over that they are not reporters and no one can be expected to take them seriously. Which is obviously disingenuous, but it does demonstrate that they can't back up all the crazy that they spout when lying on the stand would put them in jail. This construction of an alternative reality isolates Republicans who have bought into it from the reality based community. There have been Republicans who refuse to buy into the propaganda, but they are generally expunged from the party. I attended a conservative university at the end of the Bush era and beginning of the Obama one. Several of my professors were deeply involved in Republican politics. Basically all of them have been forced out. I have conservative friends, but I don't have any Republican friends.
“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[…] It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.” - founding father and President George Washington (September 19th 1796)
that's a fallacious understanding of politics and society, based on basic platonic criticism. This is just not how the human nature works. It's funny to hear about Jeffersons idea in how the country should have been governed. It actually seems like a basic communist idea.
@@RosheenQuynh I don't see any solution to it. You're system would be in need of a fundamental reform. As long as everything depends on strong parties behind your back (presidency, senat, representatives, even judge chairs), and as long as there are only two powerful enough, neither of them would and had an interest in splitting up! How would the GOP even split up? Trumpist & Libertarians. The US Dem. Party actually resembles a wide spectrum of typical european centre and leftist parties (labour, greens, socialists, even liberal conservatives, someone like lord dampnut really is at the far right of the political spectrum in europe!) ... so in a way, the Dem. party already is one big compromise. But GOP in contrary is a compromise of racists, religious fanatics and selfish entrepreneurs (just my opinion...) Yet none of them would give up their powers.
@@atheistechoes9594 if you go to this website you can see how the congresspeople from your state vote. Copy any bill google it to get an understanding then go back to the site to see if they favor the bill "yay" or not "nay." If you don't like the bills they voted for or against... Vote against them in the next election. www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
What I really don't understand is why do registered voters have to claim a political affiliation I understand why the politicians have to but do everyday citizens need to claim a party? Shouldn't they just be able to vote on the politics they believe
We claim a party because when you do that way when there is a party you wont be denied entry. That way you can have fun. Great music everyone drinking and dancing and who know you might get lucky and find a woman
Knowing Better did a good video about the "Party Switch" that goes into more details about how the south went from Democrat to Republican if anyone is interested.
If you watched that series closely you see that is only true _in first past the post systems_ . Having such a system is a choice. There are many other options available where plurality of opinion has a place. It would be very good for the US to have that.
You do realize that most countries have more then two parties? There might be two major parties, the secondary parties generally are allowed to talked about and people are not shamed if they support them.
Who wants to fix America and really truly make America great for once? Disband political parties. Seriously, that is the root cause major single issue that paralyzes our federal, state, and local governments.
Prior to maybe this past decade I thought I understood more or less both political parties and as a youth I felt very much like a centrist. There was racism which was bad, but very much a part of both parties. There were the wealthy business owners self centered and the delusion of the middle class assisted by media that wealth was around the corner, but it was again very much a part of both parties. I mean each party had it's stand, but I got the impression society as a whole was moving in the right direction if slowly. But there has been a shift against science and against what is called political correctness, but is honestly just a perception of shared humanity that made me go wait, what? Then you ask what's going on? The answers are "I'm not racist, but" or "I'm not mysogynistic, but". So I see family and friends saying these things, and I start to wonder if I ever knew them at all.
You all are WAY overthinking what a political party is...for anyone new to politics looking for a simplified answer, a political party is a club...It's a club of people with similar social, economic, and political ideas doing stuff to obtain power and advocate for things they believe in....BOOM.
This was fascinating and a great and very relatable summary of a topic all Americans should know about. I'm curious what would happen to the Electoral College if we didn't have a two-party system, especially since Electors are not obligated to vote according to the popular sentiment in their state. Thanks for producing such great content! All of your videos are wonderful!
This is so drenched in first past the post/binary politics. Parties are very problematic in such systems because they kill all other opinion. In proportional, multipartisan representation parties can actually empower different opinions.
I think of this topic myself, and every election we the American people are arguing over which of the 2 parties 🥳 the Democrats and Republicans are going to make the U.S.A be more concerned with our needs. And most of us already know that neither political parties give a damn 🙄 about our feelings. So why don't we just vote for a 3rd party candidate 🤔? That would be at least someone different political 😉. Remember Election year 2024 , just my opinion folks 🤷🏾♂️.
No matter how many times explained I do not understand parties. Most people want healthcare, little crime, employment and housing. So why do I need to believe some party for that? Both simply want funds and re-election. Local level politics is most important and most people do not get involved in it
Such a huge detail that we rarely talk about, that Political Parties are still unofficial in the US federal system. It's one of the reasons there's no American parliament.
The history of policing is pretty much impossible to disentangle from the history of bad laws, the history of passing too many laws, the history of bad practices, and the reflection of the flaws and poor attitudes and prejudices in society in each era. It may make it difficult to consider how law enforcement could work and what specific reforms could make it work as fairly and safely as possible.
It's strange that they would warn about factionalism, but do nothing to prevent it. Encouraging people to "put nation over party" is completely silly. People go hard on one party because if they other one wins they're screwed. It's rational.
I think it is natuural for those with similar views to. Kinda group together...but most couuntries have a proportional system, so there are way more parties, so the party actual gives voters more info about the candidate....
Now this is my type of history teacher, explaining how badly the political parties are. And yet no one ever would consider removal of the political parties from a president but yet, it could only be done with a independent party which is “no political party” but only your beliefs and what your own rulings you want if they accept the rulings you want. I am gonna be honest being if it was possible to have a president that goes against the political parties and got the right to remove the parties with very good choices and rulings for us all. Only the best president in history would do that if we get one like that.
It's somewhat normal that you do not have close friends in opposite parties. In Germany e.g. that's neither usually the case. Although we have more parties and a wider spectrum, you would hardly see friendships between a green/socialist and libertarian/conservative, it's more like center block and left and right wing. But this differentiation actually makes it much more fluid than the american political culture.
im still confused as to what a political party actually is? its a group of people that share the same ideas and beliefs? then they try to make these beliefs the rules and guidelines for everyone to follow? what if there are some slight disagreements on some ideas but not most of them? is that a whole new political party or is there some other way to define this? do we need political parties?
right they did. I went to an electorial college and I saw beautiful women. I tried out for the basketball team and made it. I graduated with a phd in electricity.
There wasn't set terms yet when he said that one term should be the only term so he could be fine with 10 years if one term was 10 years not two terms of 10
This is exactly why I am not political and couldn't care less about politics. Like I always said, it was created to cause division and look at us now... We're nothing more than a divided nation. We're better off without politics. Both sides have become corrupt, politics has poisoned us.
Sounds like you have a similar viewpoint as the CCP in China. It's a fair point, there is something to be gained by the cohesion in a one-party system where the citizens don't create more division amongst themselves.
Bill Clinton was influenced by Georgetown Prof. Carroll Quigley. This is how Quigley thought the two party system should work ... “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical"
Wolfgang Von Zubaz That is ridiculous. People have differing opinions on a variety of issues so that means you will have different parties with differing ideologies
@@christiansoldier77 Bill Clinton moved the democratic party into neoliberalism. Democrats today are right of 80's and early 90's Republicans. Today the parties are virtually the same on the issues that matter like foreign policy, and monetary policy. They only differ on wedge issues
@@Mullet-ZubazPants Democrats today arent right they are left and farther left than anyone that came before them. Its the Republicans who are left of the Democrats from past years
I really appreciated how you connected the early party developments from the Glorious Revolution in England's govt. Thank you for helping me see that connection
there are over a half million elected office holders in the us can you imagine if each had to be bought off individually?! party system with entrenched, consolidated leadership ftw
2 parties ? I was taught there are 6 parties Republican , democratic , conservative , liberalism , independent , constitutionalist . There may be more , but they are so small that nobody supports those parties
Humans have different opinions. Humans are also social creatures that form tribes. It was insane to suggest that political factions should be prevented. In single party states, there are still political factions. They are just hidden from the wider populace. In Washington's administration, Hamilton and Jefferson formed competing factions. In communist countries there are plenty of different factions, for example Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin headed separate factions within the CCP. It's only in multi-party states that provide voters actual power, and the more parties the better. Coalition governments force politicians to make their faction alliances out in public. The Democratic party and Republican party are also riven by faction, but those negotiations are behind closed doors. That's all that Washington's philosophy amounted to: keeping the common people strictly limited to choosing the most distinguished members of their local community to give power and keeping them out of political discussions.
@@christiansoldier77 Not stupider than allowing elites to keep the masses divided and being taken advantage of with their lies and lack of representation from politicians.
@@christiansoldier77 How do you think those crooks control people? Politicians. It’s a step towards people finding a way to use their brains instead of trusting the snakes and being perpetually screwed. Don’t be naive.
BIG THANKS to Awilda Martinez who suggested this topic when we were polling for fan pick episodes! It's been a while since we've made a fan pick and they're always some of my favorite videos. Enjoy!
~Danielle
I missed you're content! I'm glad you're back! I've learned soooo much from you're channel! And honestly you're videos have taught me to better explain some political and social beliefs I have!
FACTS----->> WE AMERICANS NEEDS WAR ON OUR LAND TOO.
Imagine going against this woman’s team on trivia night...
Fun fact: In addition to Danielle's brilliance, Meredith Danko, our script editor, was the head writer for the Mental Floss YT channel for 6 years. The Origin content team would kill at trivia night! -Sheridan
@@pbsorigins isn't Meredith Danko also the writer for Crash Course history? She's amazing
Good job on explaining Political Parties in American history.
I love this channel
Goodness, I love this woman!
Why do they call them "parties" when they're no fun?
This channel needs way more views.
I feel so bad that they make one great video after another, informative and well edited and they barely get any views...
Share it to social media. That's what I have been doing every since I found this channel.
its amazing how so many previous presidents and political figures from decades or even hundreds of years ago have warned against so many of the things that we are seeing happening today and in many cases have become the norm in American society, like how Eisenhower warned against the rise of the military industrial complex and the drafters of the constitution warned against the use of foreign aid to help a politician get elected, but those lessons have long since been forgotten
Hey this is the topic I (also) asked about 😃 - thanks for taking it up Danielle and team! 🙌🙌🙌
So I have been reading about rank choice voting and I feel like that is a push to get rid of the two party favored system we have.
Honestly a change in voting system is the only hope I see for a change in that dynamic
Which is why many people wanted Bernie. He would have been the first major shift from a party in years.
Amanda LaDouceur Thats the problem right there. Your goal shouldnt be to get rid of the two party system but to make things better for voters which ranked choice doesnt do
@@christiansoldier77 your statement is 100% false.
@@christiansoldier77 your statement is literally directly contrary to the founder's goals and ideals for our republic. please, next time, try harder to comprehend what is being said in the video. there's a lot of big words, but I have faith that you can do it.
I remember when having friends in the other party was normal. Aren't we all Americans first?
Not anymore
It's become less and less common once Republican operatives determined that they needed to create an alternative reality and prevent crimes from undoing a president, post-Nixon. Through deregulating and expanding talk radio, and then going all in on cable TV like FoxNews, they have been able to construct a fantasy land for their voters to reside in. Studies demonstrate that FoxNews watchers aren't just ignorant but actually very wrong. They demonstrated that you would know more about the news of the world if you watch no news at all than if you watched FoxNews. In the various court cases against talk radio and FoxNews personalities, they argue over and over that they are not reporters and no one can be expected to take them seriously. Which is obviously disingenuous, but it does demonstrate that they can't back up all the crazy that they spout when lying on the stand would put them in jail.
This construction of an alternative reality isolates Republicans who have bought into it from the reality based community. There have been Republicans who refuse to buy into the propaganda, but they are generally expunged from the party. I attended a conservative university at the end of the Bush era and beginning of the Obama one. Several of my professors were deeply involved in Republican politics. Basically all of them have been forced out. I have conservative friends, but I don't have any Republican friends.
LOL you'd think so, yet here we are
Country Over Party ❤🇺🇸 ❤
“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[…] It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.” - founding father and President George Washington (September 19th 1796)
This is why politics is pointless and stupid.
that's a fallacious understanding of politics and society, based on basic platonic criticism. This is just not how the human nature works. It's funny to hear about Jeffersons idea in how the country should have been governed. It actually seems like a basic communist idea.
@@camillealexandrebonnes2682 So you like the dissension we're in right now?
@@RosheenQuynh I don't see any solution to it. You're system would be in need of a fundamental reform.
As long as everything depends on strong parties behind your back (presidency, senat, representatives, even judge chairs), and as long as there are only two powerful enough, neither of them would and had an interest in splitting up!
How would the GOP even split up? Trumpist & Libertarians.
The US Dem. Party actually resembles a wide spectrum of typical european centre and leftist parties (labour, greens, socialists, even liberal conservatives, someone like lord dampnut really is at the far right of the political spectrum in europe!) ... so in a way, the Dem. party already is one big compromise.
But GOP in contrary is a compromise of racists, religious fanatics and selfish entrepreneurs (just my opinion...)
Yet none of them would give up their powers.
@@camillealexandrebonnes2682 The government is all corrupt, anyone that powerful can't possibly be humble.
Refused to say I’m aligned to a faction. Have voted for anyone I want to
I’m in the same boat. There are values on both sides that I align with, but I side with neither of the big parties
So You're independent. The smartest kind of voter!
Im also non denomination but i have no idea how to vote
@@atheistechoes9594 if you go to this website you can see how the congresspeople from your state vote. Copy any bill google it to get an understanding then go back to the site to see if they favor the bill "yay" or not "nay." If you don't like the bills they voted for or against... Vote against them in the next election.
www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
I would say. i agree with 2 factions. But also an unaffiliated voter
Wouldn't it be better to get rid of political parties all together.
What I really don't understand is why do registered voters have to claim a political affiliation I understand why the politicians have to but do everyday citizens need to claim a party? Shouldn't they just be able to vote on the politics they believe
We claim a party because when you do that way when there is a party you wont be denied entry. That way you can have fun. Great music everyone drinking and dancing and who know you might get lucky and find a woman
Make sense?
Voting my favorite in the primary, and then the lesser of two evils in the general helps keep the party Kool-Aid away.
Evil is still evil.
Knowing Better did a good video about the "Party Switch" that goes into more details about how the south went from Democrat to Republican if anyone is interested.
Oh! Thanks! I hadn't heard of that channel yet 😁
Yes, that is a really great video, definitely worth watching
I don't care about politics
This is amazing! I love your content! History is awesome :)
Plurality Voting will always devolve into two parties....
CGPGray's 'Politics in the Animal Kingdom' series touched on all of this.
If you watched that series closely you see that is only true _in first past the post systems_ . Having such a system is a choice. There are many other options available where plurality of opinion has a place. It would be very good for the US to have that.
You do realize that most countries have more then two parties? There might be two major parties, the secondary parties generally are allowed to talked about and people are not shamed if they support them.
Who wants to fix America and really truly make America great for once? Disband political parties. Seriously, that is the root cause major single issue that paralyzes our federal, state, and local governments.
"Democratic demographic" say that 3 times fast.
I had lots of high school US history flashbacks watching this video 😂. Thanks for the great work!
Prior to maybe this past decade I thought I understood more or less both political parties and as a youth I felt very much like a centrist. There was racism which was bad, but very much a part of both parties. There were the wealthy business owners self centered and the delusion of the middle class assisted by media that wealth was around the corner, but it was again very much a part of both parties. I mean each party had it's stand, but I got the impression society as a whole was moving in the right direction if slowly. But there has been a shift against science and against what is called political correctness, but is honestly just a perception of shared humanity that made me go wait, what? Then you ask what's going on? The answers are "I'm not racist, but" or "I'm not mysogynistic, but". So I see family and friends saying these things, and I start to wonder if I ever knew them at all.
You all are WAY overthinking what a political party is...for anyone new to politics looking for a simplified answer, a political party is a club...It's a club of people with similar social, economic, and political ideas doing stuff to obtain power and advocate for things they believe in....BOOM.
Great vid! How have you learned to speakl so fluid? You have a very crisp pronunciation & vocabulary.
You have to have political parties to implement the divide and conquer strategy.
That's the explanation I was looking for, because it's hard to draw a line where Democrats and Republicans switched roles. Thank you!
We should've listened
Sadly, we never will...
This was fascinating and a great and very relatable summary of a topic all Americans should know about. I'm curious what would happen to the Electoral College if we didn't have a two-party system, especially since Electors are not obligated to vote according to the popular sentiment in their state. Thanks for producing such great content! All of your videos are wonderful!
This is so drenched in first past the post/binary politics. Parties are very problematic in such systems because they kill all other opinion. In proportional, multipartisan representation parties can actually empower different opinions.
Toon Holman Including bad opinions like the Nazis. The Nazis came to power precisely because of the multi party system
I think of this topic myself, and every election we the American people are arguing over which of the 2 parties 🥳 the Democrats and Republicans are going to make the U.S.A be more concerned with our needs. And most of us already know that neither political parties give a damn 🙄 about our feelings. So why don't we just vote for a 3rd party candidate 🤔? That would be at least someone different political 😉. Remember Election year 2024 , just my opinion folks 🤷🏾♂️.
No matter how many times explained I do not understand parties. Most people want healthcare, little crime, employment and housing. So why do I need to believe some party for that? Both simply want funds and re-election. Local level politics is most important and most people do not get involved in it
Such a huge detail that we rarely talk about, that Political Parties are still unofficial in the US federal system. It's one of the reasons there's no American parliament.
The history of policing is pretty much impossible to disentangle from the history of bad laws, the history of passing too many laws, the history of bad practices, and the reflection of the flaws and poor attitudes and prejudices in society in each era. It may make it difficult to consider how law enforcement could work and what specific reforms could make it work as fairly and safely as possible.
It’s almost like the Republican Party saved everything. 🤔
Thats why im independent
Great channel greets fromm Uruguay ^^
I will be glad when everyone who runs is independent and there are no more parties. People are party voting and have no ideal what's going on.
I enjoy your videos.
Because the purpose of political parties is to unite people with similar political beliefs so voters know what they stand for.
Parties represent class interests despite who votes for them.
It's strange that they would warn about factionalism, but do nothing to prevent it. Encouraging people to "put nation over party" is completely silly. People go hard on one party because if they other one wins they're screwed. It's rational.
I really love you videos! They are VERY informative and most importantly academically back up!
Thank you!!!!!!
Thank you for your support, Jafra!
- Sheridan
I think it is natuural for those with similar views to. Kinda group together...but most couuntries have a proportional system, so there are way more parties, so the party actual gives voters more info about the candidate....
I hope the usa gets to a better system some day
@@1993greeksoldier Two party is the best system
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Well done! ...I learned a lot 👍🏾
So it’s politics that succeeds in reversing the formalization of human rights?
Huh…
Who would’ve guessed.
Now this is my type of history teacher, explaining how badly the political parties are. And yet no one ever would consider removal of the political parties from a president but yet, it could only be done with a independent party which is “no political party” but only your beliefs and what your own rulings you want if they accept the rulings you want. I am gonna be honest being if it was possible to have a president that goes against the political parties and got the right to remove the parties with very good choices and rulings for us all. Only the best president in history would do that if we get one like that.
Good video
It's somewhat normal that you do not have close friends in opposite parties. In Germany e.g. that's neither usually the case. Although we have more parties and a wider spectrum, you would hardly see friendships between a green/socialist and libertarian/conservative, it's more like center block and left and right wing. But this differentiation actually makes it much more fluid than the american political culture.
Every American should read George Washington’s farewell address.
im still confused as to what a political party actually is? its a group of people that share the same ideas and beliefs? then they try to make these beliefs the rules and guidelines for everyone to follow? what if there are some slight disagreements on some ideas but not most of them? is that a whole new political party or is there some other way to define this? do we need political parties?
Omg. I know, I know!!! I'm so glad I found your channel.
Love your videos. I would have been a history teacher if she was my teacher.
"Unanticipated"?? Ever read the Federalist papers? They knew it would happen and that's why they did term limits and the electoral college...
right they did. I went to an electorial college and I saw beautiful women. I tried out for the basketball team and made it. I graduated with a phd in electricity.
This is good and very, very informative....thank you!!
Way to go. You explained it correctly from being to end.
Washington also said presidents should only serve one term but served two... #justsayin
There wasn't set terms yet when he said that one term should be the only term so he could be fine with 10 years if one term was 10 years not two terms of 10
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This is exactly why I am not political and couldn't care less about politics. Like I always said, it was created to cause division and look at us now... We're nothing more than a divided nation. We're better off without politics. Both sides have become corrupt, politics has poisoned us.
Sounds like you have a similar viewpoint as the CCP in China. It's a fair point, there is something to be gained by the cohesion in a one-party system where the citizens don't create more division amongst themselves.
@@heatherswanson1664 It's fine to believe different things but not at the expense of peace.
Country over Party... Yesss!
Bill Clinton was influenced by Georgetown Prof. Carroll Quigley. This is how Quigley thought the two party system should work ... “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical"
Wolfgang Von Zubaz That is ridiculous. People have differing opinions on a variety of issues so that means you will have different parties with differing ideologies
@@christiansoldier77 Bill Clinton moved the democratic party into neoliberalism. Democrats today are right of 80's and early 90's Republicans. Today the parties are virtually the same on the issues that matter like foreign policy, and monetary policy. They only differ on wedge issues
@@Mullet-ZubazPants Democrats today arent right they are left and farther left than anyone that came before them. Its the Republicans who are left of the Democrats from past years
I can't wait for new parties
Origin Of Everything
: Why Do We Have Political Parties?
Me: So we know who are the Fascists and who are the sell-outs!
i see you went with the "when in polite company" monikers
Knowing that is all about perspective?
@@evilotto9200 Hummmmmm, idk. Is "Fascist" a euphemism?? Maybe! The world is so crazy it could be! That's depressing!
@@tlhawthorne is that a rhetorical question?
3:07 is that the meme man over there??
Having politics without parties is like having the NFL without teams . It is impossible
Not true
@@done4482 It's true. People of like mind always join together
We may need a new party
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Primitive
I really appreciated how you connected the early party developments from the Glorious Revolution in England's govt. Thank you for helping me see that connection
Why'd you all kill Socrates?
He sneezed on my salad.
*cue "the party switch didn't happen" comments*
Cue "the party switch happened" comments
cool.
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Fun fact
Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make people feel happy
-Shazistic
there are over a half million elected office holders in the us
can you imagine if each had to be bought off individually?!
party system with entrenched, consolidated leadership ftw
2 parties ?
I was taught there are 6 parties
Republican , democratic , conservative , liberalism , independent , constitutionalist . There may be more , but they are so small that nobody supports those parties
She didn't say there are only 2 parties.
Humans have different opinions. Humans are also social creatures that form tribes. It was insane to suggest that political factions should be prevented. In single party states, there are still political factions. They are just hidden from the wider populace. In Washington's administration, Hamilton and Jefferson formed competing factions. In communist countries there are plenty of different factions, for example Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin headed separate factions within the CCP. It's only in multi-party states that provide voters actual power, and the more parties the better. Coalition governments force politicians to make their faction alliances out in public. The Democratic party and Republican party are also riven by faction, but those negotiations are behind closed doors.
That's all that Washington's philosophy amounted to: keeping the common people strictly limited to choosing the most distinguished members of their local community to give power and keeping them out of political discussions.
Amen n thank you
When Are you gonna start telling the truth?
@Trade Bum Simmons no the write question is why I the truth 🤣
Political parties should be illegal.
lakeugly Thats stupid
@@christiansoldier77 Not stupider than allowing elites to keep the masses divided and being taken advantage of with their lies and lack of representation from politicians.
@@ibeeline9431 Making parties illegal wouldnt change any of that
@@christiansoldier77 How do you think those crooks control people? Politicians. It’s a step towards people finding a way to use their brains instead of trusting the snakes and being perpetually screwed. Don’t be naive.
@@ibeeline9431 There will always be parties and factions even if you make them illegal.