New Conglomerate wrote:Parties are the strongest they've ever been, and the amount of partisanship that we're seeing now has never really reached these levels before. It's unsustainable.
No political parties were strongest in the 1800s when the ruling party had the power to fire very single Federal bureaucrat and replace then with loyal party member. Please there have been far more partisan time in American history. For example in 1798 when one congressman Roger Griswold called congressmen Matthew Lyon a scoundrel and a coward in regards to his foreign policy.Well he did not take to kindly to that so he spat on the gentlemen from Connecticut face. An infuriated Roger grabbed his cane and began to beat the gentlemen form Vermont over the head. Matthew somehow managed a get a poker form a nearby fireplace and used it to counterattack Roger. Until a few Congressmen jumped onto the floor of House to break up the fight. Or when the debate over whether Kansas should be a slave or free state got so bad that both side formed militias to fight one another.Which in turn was one of the factors that caused the civil war (the most partisan time in American history). Or when partisan bickering prevented Indiana form appointing a senator to the senate for two years and Delaware for four god dam years.
