From: samamcclung@gmail.com
The USA has tried Scherffs' neo-nazism and orange fascism.
Maybe it's time for a change.
The first US President, George Washington in his Farewell Address:
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with
particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations.
Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn
manner against the baneful
effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in
the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in
all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those
of the popular
form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
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.
But this leads at
length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries
which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in
the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some
prevailing faction, more
able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the
purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
The second US President, John Adams, in 1780:
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two
great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in
opposition to each other. This in my opinion is to be dreaded as the greatest
evil under our
Constitution."
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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