(07-24-2018 03:31 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  You sound as though you feel alienated from your government, Citizen Georgia_Tech_Swagger.

I say that instead of party based political warfare perhaps the goal should be the drastic reduction in the size of government so that political parties cannot engage in party based political warfare.

Because political warfare is a demonstration of how much power they have and maybe more importantly, how much power you don't have.

In an era when government is already out of touch with the citizens and getting worse every day, don't give political parties any more power to make decisions that hurt normal Americans.

More than that, any government that operates on the spoils go to the victor mentality loses its legitimacy in the eyes of the populace. Inevitably this leads to civil insurrection.

The consent of the governed is the only legitimacy for a free society. That's why effective government is supposed to lead from the middle and by some form of bipartisan consensus when possible. They won't ever do that again until they are answerable to the people for their campaigns instead of to corporate interests funneled through PAC contributions.