As long as your primary political opponent is the other party - friend, family, neighbor, coworker, etc. - you always lose. Everyone knows this too. Although most won't admit it (even to themselves). Because the kayfabe is way more comfortable.
The Partisan Road to Tyranny: George Washington's Prophetic Warning
George Washington understood the endgame. His Farewell Address, delivered September 19, 1796, wasn’t ceremonial rhetoric—it was an urgent warning about the forces that destroy republics from within. While Americans debate modern politics, they ignore the founder’s most critical insight: partisanship doesn’t just damage government—it creates the conditions for tyranny.
The Warning Nobody Heeded
Washington identified political parties as the republic’s greatest internal threat. Not foreign enemies. Not economic collapse. Partisan warfare.
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.”
He recognized partisan instinct as fundamentally human—present in all governments but uniquely dangerous in republics where it reaches “its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.”
The mechanism is straightforward: partisan conflict creates chaos, chaos demands order, and desperate populations accept tyranny as relief. Washington called this cycle “a frightful despotism.”
The Feedback Loop
Washington identified the core mechanism: government power and partisan warfare feed each other. Larger government creates higher stakes for political control. Higher stakes intensify partisan conflict. Intensified conflict creates demand for more government power to restore order.
The cycle accelerates until citizens prefer tyranny to chaos.
Both left and right think they're too cool for old school. Yet these Old Dead White Guys were spot on!
Faction is Death to Liberty
“The dupes of other men.”
Noah Webster told us exactly what happens when people join a political party – they become mindless puppets of people in power. His timeless warning that “faction is death to liberty” is one we can’t afford to ignore any longer.
FREEDOM LOST
Most people think the greatest threats we face come from foreign enemies or corrupt politicians. But not according to Noah Webster. He warned – if you really want to destroy everything good, you only need one thing: FACTIONS!
“Were the councils of hell united to invent expedients for depriving men of the little portion of good they are destined to enjoy on this earth, the only measure they need adopt for this purpose, would be, to introduce factions into the bosom of the country.”
And it starts the instant you sign up for a political party – you lose your freedom of thought.
“The moment a man is attached to a club, his mind is not free”
The simple act of joining starts the chain of loyalty.
From there, people quickly stop thinking for themselves, and just start believing their party or faction over anything else.
“Hence arises what is called bigotry or illiberality. Persons who are united on any occasion, are more apt to believe the prevailing opinions of their society, than the prevailing opinions of another society.”
And that leads to the same place every time: MY TEAM RIGHT, OTHER TEAM WRONG.
“Hence the full persuasion in every society that theirs is right; and if right, others of course are wrong.”
Ultimately, the topic doesn’t matter, and neither does the country or the time in history. It happens everywhere.
ENEMIES EVERYWHERE
But factions and parties don’t just corrupt your understanding of the truth. Anyone and everyone can be seen as the enemy.
“A party-spirit is hostile to all friendly intercourse: it inflames the passions; it sours the mind; it destroys good neighborhood”
Even worse – they completely infect all aspects of society.
It’s not a conspiracy theory. They really do want the People divided.
The Friendly Face of Digital Control: How Psychopolitics Rewrites Freedom
The surveillance state operates nothing like the dystopian fantasies sold to us in movies and books. There are no midnight raids, no torture chambers, no uniformed agents demanding identification. Instead, there are devices we carry willingly, platforms we update eagerly, and systems we embrace as liberation itself. This isn’t accidental—it’s the most sophisticated control mechanism ever deployed. And it’s working exactly as designed.
We are living through the emergence of psychopolitics: governance that doesn’t break resistance but eliminates it by making submission feel like freedom. Unlike the crude domination of earlier systems, psychopolitics exploits our deepest desires for liberty, connection, and self-expression. The result is voluntary surrender more complete than any dictator ever achieved through force.
Why Traditional Freedom Failed
Classical liberalism promised two forms of liberty: negative freedom (freedom from external constraints) and positive freedom (freedom to pursue authentic goals). Psychopolitics destroys this distinction by making the pursuit of positive liberty the mechanism of control itself.
The command to “be yourself” becomes a governmental technique when selfhood requires constant optimization and performance. The more vigorously people pursue their freedom, the more thoroughly they integrate into systems designed to capture and monetize their choices, relationships, and attention.
True freedom—authentic liberty—requires something entirely different: the capacity to refuse the terms within which choice is presented. It means stepping outside systems that define what counts as valuable, desirable, or meaningful. It demands what philosophers call “de-subjectification”—withdrawal from the identities that make us legible to power.
They play semantic games to create confusion.
It was supposed to be all of us versus them.
It still can be too.
Dump DC.
