referring to FPTP voting not the act of voting at all.
Also, he was a slave owner and personally marched against dissatisfied working class americans when they balked at new liquor taxes. He might have been elected but he had some pretty authoritarian streaks in him.
“Why… WHY did you succumb to this problem that we foresaw but did nothing to prevent!?”
To be fair, most of Washington’s concerns about political parties were about tribalism more generally.
Was about to say, this is the result of the voting system they adopted, we’re just stuck with it for the moment
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referring to FPTP voting not the act of voting at all.
Also, he was a slave owner and personally marched against dissatisfied working class americans when they balked at new liquor taxes. He might have been elected but he had some pretty authoritarian streaks in him.
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