We were warned. A faction-first mentality only guarantees tyranny. And it has certainly helped give us the largest government in history today. But it’s not just dangerous to liberty - it also destroys social harmony.
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Most people take a team-first approach to almost every issue. Positions flip-flop based on who is in power. And as it continues over time it keeps getting worse and worse and worse.
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A “frightful despotism,” would be the result of an “alternate domination of one faction over another,” warned George Washington. He was joined - with similar warnings - by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others. But this opposition to factions didn’t start with the founding generation at all.
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In his farewell address of Sept 19, 1796 George Washington warned about the dangers of political factions.
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