The Alternate Domination

if that's where you're going, then I've got something for you guys, because when I put my hand up, I actually wanted to defend Destin's position on what he was saying, you know, because he's actually channeling something that George Washington told us, and I shared it in the purple pill. It's not too long, I just want to read George Washington's words, because they feel very appropriate right now, and he was talking about how the two-party system, the party will end up becoming its own worst enemy, and what he said was, and again, these words are his, not mine.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual, and sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public council and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies. Yeah, you get to the ending, bro, get to the ending.

We're almost there. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind... Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, dude, no, hold on, hold on.