0% Party 100% Patriot

I was raised in a Democrat family. I had Democrat parents, Democrat aunts and uncles, Democrat grandparents. Growing up I couldn’t tell you why we were Democrats anymore than I could explain why we were Catholic. We just were. I remember in Government class, while a senior in high school, taking a “political assessment test” to gauge where my political allegiances fell. I remember being greatly disappointed to find that my political convictions proved right of center, not Democrat! PFFT, Whatever! I was a Democrat darn it! That was 1990. And then came Clinton in 1992... yep, I’m a Republican… it’s now 1996.

Republican, Democrat, there used to be a difference. There used to be a clear “party line”. Whether I understood them growing up or not, I definitely did as an adult in the ‘90s. In the last decades, however, the “parties” are one in the same, and they seek one thing only, control.

Studying our Founding Fathers in recent years I have found that my growing disdain for “parties” was shared by many of them. They were aware of the dangers of factions, as they described them, and their desires for power at the cost of the citizen’s liberties.

James Madison in the Federalists papers number ten wrote, “ Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens,… that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” He continued with, “When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interests both the public good and the rights of other citizens.”.

Washington also gave warnings in regards to parties and understood them to be a “cause which may disturb our Union”. He states so poignantly, “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; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”. He has much more to say in warning of parties in his farewell address, and I implore you to read it here.

Reading the quotes from Washington and Madison it’s hard to determine if they are speaking of their time or ours. They were very wise in their warnings. Unity in the Republic, the preservation of the Constitution, the protection of liberties of the citizens, these were their highest concerns and their cause for many of their sacrifices.

They were 0% Party and 100% Patriots. Their loyalties were to their country and their countrymen.

After many years of disappointment, discouragement and disillusionment from Party Establishment and loyalist, I have separated myself from any party affiliation. I search now for the Patriot. Due to the fact that our nation is currently divided into “parties”, I am forced to sift through the sludge  to find the Constitutionalists wearing a party cloak, but there are some out there. Finding the true patriots and making sure we remove the ones seeking their own power and interests is the most affective means of moving towards restoring our Republic.

Breaking party loyalty may be found difficult for some, but one must remember it is the Constitution that makes us unique as a nation, and our Constitution knows no party. It is 0% Party and 100% Patriot.

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