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Merlyn C. Faris III

American Politics:The Two Party System pt.I

Updated: Jan 6, 2022

Merlyn C. Faris III




While I won’t completely dismiss the “two party system,” I will most certainly agree with the fact of the grotesque nature of the propagandized false decisions we constantly have thrust into our faces and drilled into our psyches. The division of the masses, the dehumanization and intersectionality, the blatantly elementary insults and attacks are all tools to keep “We the People” divided, afraid, and weak.



the two parties:

As is normal with ideological statements there is usually an adverse or contrarian view. This has been the case since the beginning of our country (tories/revolutionaries later federalists/ anti-federalists), the parliament before us in England, as well as all other cultures throughout history; such as Rome, for example, (empirical rule/democracy, representative democracy/direct democracy). It is human nature, it is to be expected, and makes sense. We have had divisions that have led to bloody fist fights on the capital’s floor, even famous gun duels: one by a vice president and another by a president. These ideological differences are old-hat and not too dissimilar to the shallow, illogical, pandering stump speeches of today. Intersectionality, identity politics, and fear rule the day and seemingly enslave the masses. To choose the “better of the two,” or any other similar rationale, is to pick a wing on a bird as “the best.” It’s foolishness.


layers of foolishness:

Politics is ideas; it is conversation, it is debate of the best ways to construct the rules of societal interactions. It is foolish to think there can be any success of prosperity in our country when we are using the “polarity of teams” to debate the “polarity of morality.” How does a nation with thousands of years worth of lessons and technology find itself split 50/50 on “is murder ok?” Moral principles have polar opposites; it either is okay or it is not. Governing policy, however, doesn’t necessarily need such polar entrenchment. There are varying degrees of solutions when it comes to policies such as roads and defense; but we currently have a polar divide of thinking on topics of murder, private property, theft, bodily autonomy and so on. How...how is that even a discussion and how can we hope to wrestle the deep concepts of Natural Law when we can’t even agree to the base question “is murder or theft ok?”


How can there be any prosperity when one party openly and actively hates the country, teaches a false history, and states its goal is to “tear it down?” Add to that, the ideology used as this movement’s foundation is completely counter to virtually every American ideal, and has only ever brought subjugation, poverty, death, and destruction wherever it’s been. How is a group/party with such ideals and goals given a seat at the table of American policy and entrusted with not only our rights but also those of future generations?


Another layer of foolishness occurs when legislation is actually passed, by either party, and is touted as a “win.” Too often I find myself at a loss for words and skeptical when I hear such boasting. One party typically starts out with well intentioned legislation, quite possibly even morally based, only to end up tying their own shoelaces together and crying later when the legislation, or the precedent thereof, is used for totalitarian purposes. Very often to “protect the rights” of one group, they can’t help themselves from stealing the rights from another in the very same bill. All this while the other party ascribes to a flawed theory, creates victims by definition, and strips the liberty of Americans in an attempt to “defend American’s liberty,”. Only, they do it openly. That one is a bit of a conundrum for me.


You see, I understand our two party system often is two wings of the same bird. I simply question what kind of bird it is when it is seen hovering around when things stink, thriving amidst desolation, and circling above a wounded America. Never let a crisis go to waste.


To be continued…

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