I read the Republican Platform

And now I need antipsychotics

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Our Founding Fathers originally envisioned a political system devoid of political Parties. So, if you’re one of those people who thinks our system should be multiparty or without parties or such you may actually have something in common with George Washington. Go you.

And political Parties are really not immutable from a historical perspective. Not even a little bit. After Jefferson and Burr more or less created American political Parties and destroyed the purpose of the Electoral College. Their Party was literally the Democratic-Republican Party and while the Democratic Party can trace it’s lineage all the way back to that same one the Republican Party was more or less born out of the dying Whig Party. As modern Republicans will remind you, ad naseum, and as most of us got tired of hearing when we were in about second grade, Abraham Lincoln was one of the first Republicans and was the first Republican President. The transition of so many politicians from the dying Whig Party to the new Republican Party back in the 1850s signifies … about three things.

1. Parties can die.
2. Parties are not ideologically consistent.
3. The dissolution of a Party does not necessarily mean that its influential members are no longer politically relevant, it just means…