[Maelstrom]

Partisanship has saved this country.

You do NOT want government groups to get along because when they do, government power is unstoppable.

What does that mean?

That can mean civil forfeiture is expanded to all other crimes.

It can mean the abolition of the 2nd Amendment instead of having it merely ignored.

It can mean the nationalization of the wealth of all individuals with the top incomes or most assets.

YOU DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT PARTISANSHIP to go away. This nation relies upon it to keep the FDRs and the Bill Clintons in check.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Partisanship has saved this country.

I disagree.

Partisanship, or factionalism, establishes an us versus them mentality where the strength of one's argument or the good one intends to do with that argument means nothing compared to the other guy losing. Partisanship encourages a cult of personality; a demonization or at the very least, a dehumanization of one's opponents, who happen to be one's countrymen. I don't think much good emerges out of conflict after conflict after conflict, and as a matter of fact, you can probably find as the source of much government bloat, redundancy, and sheer waste a Democrat's determination to stop a Republican, or a Republican's determination to stomp a Democrat.