If any still do exist and DARE admit it they are labeled RINO/DINO. Conservatives could be fiscal conservatives and liberal with respect t o social causes. Dems could be exactly the same. They either died off or are now underground and fear for their political lives if not their lives period. Dare to step out of the box? Dare to step over the line? Someone is watching and will make you pay for it. Comforting to know someone out there will be always watching our backs, isn't? :(
"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 despotism to the purpose of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."
John Adams warned us against political parties as well. He said:
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under it's leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
It's time to dispense with the theatrics, back stabbing, hatred, and schoolyard bullying tactics, and get back to the basics. Back to the Constitution. Back to the vision that our Founding Fathers had for this Constitutional Republic. It sickens and grieves me to no end to see how far this nation has fallen. Now that we are finally seeing hope rising out of the ashes, there are, unfortunately, those individuals who are ready to attack and try to destroy this hope.
