https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2G8jhhUHg John Oliver's excellent takedown of the country's broken primary/caucus/presidential candidate nominating system on Sunday's Last Week Tonight reminded me of a much earlier takedown of the entire political party system by someone who knew a thing or two about politics: George Washington. Here's what he wrote in his farewell to the nation back in 1796, … Continue reading John Oliver & George Washington tag team the party system
Very loud, very fast, and altogether
John Adams's description of the New Yorkers he encountered on his way to the First Continental Congress is just as apt today as it was in 1774.