George Washington warned about political parties.
And foreign entanglements.
But later came lesser men who thought they were wiser and proved themselves fools and jackasses.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain
He did, but Madison came to see them as necessary. “Let faction check faction, ambition check ambition,” he wrote.
The problem is today neither “faction” checks the other. They are both the same “faction.”
Which is why we need a truly new, and different, “faction”-—to ensure Madison’s goal of checking the others.
>But later came lesser men who thought they were wiser and proved themselves fools and jackasses.
The elected? Or the electorate that elects the former?