“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties . . . This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution,” John Adams in a letter to Jonathan Jackson, 1780.

If objectivity still existed, this quote would be adopted as a self-evident truth. But, unfortunately, this wisdom has been lost in our current political environment.

There is nothing in our federal republic that dictates that we must mindlessly divide ourselves into only two political parties. The current two major parties do little but share power back and forth during every election cycle. These two “great” parties have spent much effort throughout our history to establish processes and laws to ensure protection of their existence and to resist competition to their established and shared power.

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are of little difference: Rule under both parties results in a reduction of personal liberties, biased selection of economic winners and losers, growth of national debt and an inevitable march toward the demise of the American empire.

These “great” parties have become the new religion of the ignorant. As a direct result, the vote has become little more than the modern opiate of the masses.

Ego drives and underlies all political ambition.

Free your minds.

Eric Sanford

Durango