“They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation- the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.”
From the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the textbook definition of factionalism is “the concept of a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking,” with one of the synonyms being: clique. Our country is being run by two cliques. …show more content…
You can try to be a green or a yellow, but if you are that will only take away a vote from the ones you know stand a chance, so you’re not even voting at all, or even worse, you’re basically voting for the person you don’t want to win.
Maybe we don’t want to be a color. Maybe we just want to be Americans. Americans who care about the issues more than colors, and their hard, set stances on everything. American politics isn’t about debate anymore, it’s not about finding common ground on current issues and coming to a solution that will better the country. It is a gang war. Quite literally. Organizations, with a strict list of ideals, fighting for territory and