Madison predicted the DEM-RINO Party during the Convention:
“An increase in the population will of necessity increase the proportion of those who will labor under all the hardships of life and secretly sigh for a more equitable distribution of its blessings. These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will slide into the hands of the former. No agrarian attempts have yet been made in this country, but symptoms of a levelling spirit, as we have understood have sufficiently appeared, in a certain quarter, to give notice of the future danger.”
“Equitable” should be in quotes to best represent his meaning_ ie ‘equitable’ in the selfish view of the indigent.
Predicting and supporting are two entirely different things.
The political system envisioned and supported by Washington and Adams was not a party system. Not at all.
It was one of individual self-government, REPRESENTATION, and constant regard for principle, the good of the nation as a whole, and the securing of the Blessings to posterity.
All of which we can easily restore if we simply have the understanding and the commitment to do so.
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