Two Parties. Do we need them?

Let’s see . . . I can go to my granddaughter’s birthday party or my nephew’s rowdy bachelors’ party. Which do I prefer? Each one of us will answer that depending on our thought process involving any number of factors. Will I use my sense of ethics, duty, self importance, values or integrity mixed with peer pressure, worldview, devotion or financial considerations? One of them or all of them? We are a complicated creature and each one of us determines the “list” and mix to achieve our decision. All I can tell you is I would be going to my granddaughters birthday party.

Politically will you vote Democrat or Republican? The founding father originally ignored the whole thought. They would have preferred no parties or “factions” as they called it. But as the nation began to move forward they discovered a more realistic understanding of politics because a consensus was impossible. They discovered that some sort of political organization would facilitate—not destroy—the political process. So we first had the Federalists and anti-Federalists. The people began deciding what “party” they were going to support.


Today in Massachusetts, a bunch originally wanted to attend “the bachelor party”, but something changed their thought process and it looks like a lot are now thinking the “birthday party” might be a better choice.