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> We have them because the Founders thought it was a good idea. The US Founders also did not have political parties, and the tribal/clan thinking that goes alo
by throw0101a 1mo ago
> We have them because the Founders thought it was a good idea.
The US Founders also did not have political parties, and the tribal/clan thinking that goes along with them.
- jfengel 1mo agoThey had factions, which turned almost immediately into parties: the Federalists and Anti-federalists, which morphed into the Democratic-Republicans. There were always two after that, until the former died off and the latter split into what we have had since.