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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\nPolls show that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2010\/09\/poll-after-poll-shows-that-both.html\">a \n majority of Americans say that both the Republicans and Democrats are \ndoing such a poor job representing the people that a new, third party \nis needed<\/a>.<\/p>\nI’ve repeatedly warned that there is a scripted, \npsuedo-war between Dems and Repubs, liberals and conservatives which is \n in reality a false divide-and-conquer dog-and-pony show created by \nthe powers that be to keep the American people divided and \ndistracted. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2010\/09\/poll-after-poll-shows-that-both.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/04\/dont-fall-for-old-divide-and-conquer.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2008\/11\/neocons-and-neoliberals-two-masks-one.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/03\/conservative-and-liberal.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/03\/useful-idiots-on-left-and-right.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/11\/senator-dorgan-we-essentially-have-had.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/08\/state-of-civil-disobedience-on-left-and.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2010\/12\/forget-keynesians-versus-deficit-hawks.html\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2009\/08\/real-war-is-not-between-left-and-right.html\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/you-vs-corporations\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn fact, the Founding Fathers warned<\/span> us about the threat from a two party system.<\/p>\nJohn Adams <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/John_Adams\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThere \n is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into \ntwo great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting \nmeasures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, \nis to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nGeorge Washington agreed, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Washington's_Farewell_Address#22\">saying<\/a> in his farewell presidential speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe \n alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the \nspirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages \n and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a \nfrightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and \npermanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually \n incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute \npower of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing \n faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this \n disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of \nPublic Liberty<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWithout looking forward to an extremity of this \nkind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the \ncommon and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to \n make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and \nrestrain it. <\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nIt serves always to distract \nthe Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It \nagitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; \nkindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally \n riot and insurrection. 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