Here’s what G Washington warned about partisan lies:
“You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.”
“You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.”
Here’s what GW warned about lying party leaders: “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”
In other words, a few bad apples will try to supplant the will of the people with their own. If Americans let them, Washington says, “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”
All Americans should “moderate the fury of party spirit” Washington warned. All of this in his Farewell Address, which he hoped we would revisit when needed. Like right now. My column at @DefenseOne: defenseone.com/ideas/2020/11/… #ElectionDay #Philadelphia #PA
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