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A quote to deploy to both increase understanding across the aisle & defeat Trumpism
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they 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."
PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON
FAREWELL ADDRESS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1796
PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON
FAREWELL ADDRESS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1796
Republicans see it in the Democratic Party (imho, largely unjustly) and ignore the torrent of such craven corruption amongst those in their own vile caucus, and we of course see it clearly and overwhelmingly in the Trumpist cabal...
...but its clear to them AND to us to which party (and to which unprincipled "men"
Washington's admonition most applies.
I've done this whammy a few times and it works - if there's a shred of pragmatism left in them, anyway.
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for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."'
