Banning Political Parties Analysis

Sitting by his desk, glancing out onto a fledgling nation, a president pens a letter. Yet, this is no mere correspondence, it is a letter to Americans that will signal his exit from the national stage. The president ponders the divisions and failures of his administration, the bickering, the partisanship, the animosity. He write “The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security... and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction... [will be] the ruins of public liberty.” Washington’s words proved prophetic, and as they say, the rest is history. Today however, September 19th 2035, the din and tyranny of the factions has at last ceased. Today, the senate voted for a bill banning political parties. This bill, once considered a chimerical illusion of the elite, has happened in part due to the work of one man. That man is professor and public intellectual Dr. Yehuda Goldberg. …show more content…
“Parties allow people to unite behind ideas, and they allow people who identify with certain values to succeed and find a voice” said one opponent of the bill. Yet, this opposition was no match for Goldberg’s fiery media campaign. Shooting back in a television interview, he responded “The most important political loyalty is to ideas and to ones country, not to an arbitrary statement.” Perhaps the most frighting element of political parties is how they stifle innovation and creativity. Political parties tend to limit politicians and presidents to two different ideologies and new, innovative ideas are really heard over the buzz of homogeneous mindless party loyalists. Once again, Goldberg looks back at our founders as an example. “Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, they did not rely on precedent and past political systems. The constitution is a flexible, innovative, creative document that transcends particular stifling ideologies” he