Political Parties: A Threat To The United States

What is it that poses a threat to the United States? While there are many variances of the matter, political parties undoubtedly serve as a major threat to the United States in many ways. They are a serious factor in many disputes and often serve as a catalyst for an otherwise minor issue to be catapulted into major discussion and dispute. Political parties are a ludicrous ideology for numerous reasons and among them are- the distaste harboured by the founding fathers for their notion, another level of division is constructed, and their existence presents the opportunity for literal division of the nation as a whole. Our founding fathers were great men, and they had only the best interests for the future of this nation. There were many issues …show more content…
To divide a nation is to give a reason for internal discord, and internal discord most often leads to internal conflict. Such as the division of the nation in the Civil War. While in the end the division led to the betterment of the nation had people looked past the many superficial issues causing the division they may been able to avoid the conflict altogether. Had they looked past the issues of origin of a person or of a person's skin color or many other issues of the day, they would have likely never suffered from these particular issues to begin with. Similarly to what occurs at election time in this country. There are many political parties, but really only two hold any true weight. Democrat and Republican are the two dominant superpowers in the battle for political superiority. During the recent election people fought to be heard over the din of voices demanding that their candidate was superior, and in many cases it had nothing to do with their beliefs but rather with their political affiliation. People fought and argued points simply on the basis that their political party was right and therefore the other must be wrong. So far has the division gone that a candidate's loss incites riots among their loyal followers. People protest the decision of the masses because what they believe about the political party keeps them from realizing that is the …show more content…
They may say that some founding fathers founded the political parties (Pew Research Center) (Shmoop University),that division actually makes the nation stronger(Cohn) (Jamison) , and that often the opening of those doors lead to the greatest opportunities. The point that certain founding fathers strayed from their beliefs and were the figureheads of the first political parties is a valid point. However, those same founding fathers still spoke out about dominant super parties. Relative now to the existence of only two primary parties. They may have broken away from their beliefs to a degree but even in the end they still said that there should not be dominant parties(Cohn)(Pew Research Center). They may say that this nation was founded upon diversity and that while it divides the people diversity also brings them together. That while there may be differences and division among the people that the people are still American citizens first. They may argue that that is all that matters. However, if that is all that matters what point is their to the existence to political parties in the greater scheme of things. They might say that the civil war is a prime example of how division can improve the nation. Though they may neglect to mention that had superficial human divisions been looked past at the beginning there never would have been need for the Civil War(Cohn) . They would argue again and again these