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. It was but three years ago that Goldberg wrote the book “The Tyranny of the factions,” a book outlining that dangers of a two party system. The book is an immediate success, soaring to the top of the bestseller list and his ideas catch the eyes of many leaders. “One day, while I was working in my study, I get a call from a man from the speakers office” says Goldberg, “he says the Speaker has read my book and wants to discuss.” That conversation grew into many conversations and soon, the circle grew wider. The Majority leader and the minority leader joined in, as well as members from the executive branch. “It was probably the first time either of them sat in a room together in a very long time, remarked on Senator. 3 years and thousands of hours of blood, sweat and tears later, the bill passed the senate and the house. Undoubtedly, this bill would not have been passed if it were not for the years of partisanship and ineffective governing by both sides of the aisle. Yet, perhaps the largest threat the led to these leaders working together was the viable threat of a three party run by billionaire Eric Trump. It was then, said Goldberg, that he saw that three parties were only going to make the situation worse, not better. “You see” he says, “there is something intrinsically wrong and corrupt about the party system. The concept the a set of ideas or beliefs must fall neatly into …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