Re: No stopping Trump (will be a NY/NJ ticket)
George Washington agreed, saying in his farewell presidential speech:
....(Very long, so I edited parts that really struck me)
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another,
It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true;
Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party.
But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
-George Washington
All's lost! Everything's going to shit!
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