https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-george-washington-was-right-political-parties-are-worthless_n_65d532a4e4b0f7fbe7b46816
“[Partisanship] 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... [Parties] 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.”
Washington said that in his Farewell Address in 1796. Is there a word of that that’s not more true today than ever? I don’t think so.
There’s a good bit by the author talking about picking the right people and doing your homework as a voter..
I’d like to think the independent voters, or the ones who call themselves independents, can lead the way ― thinking not about party but who is best to govern the nation; who is more willing to work with others, to ignore the factions and, instead, collaborate and compromise.
Every job ad, every job interview, asks the same questions: Are you collaborative? Do you work well with others? That’s often put at a higher premium than the skill sets themselves.
With our vote, we hire these people. We are the employers. We are the government. Yet, we never seem to ask that crucial question.
-greenman
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