Extreme Polarization: Most “Solutions” will Make Things Worse
People like to blame all kinds of things for political polarization – social media, income inequality, and more. The solutions they offer are usually more government and more centralization of power – which are actually the real cause of the problem in the...
The Danger of Factions: Nothing New Under the Sun
A โfrightful despotism,โ would be the result of an โalternate domination of one faction over another,โ warned George Washington. He was joined – with similar warnings – by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others....
A Warning on Factions: From Cato to Washington
In his farewell addressย of Sept 19, 1796 George Washington warned about the dangers of political factions. โThe alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has...