A Call for Political Moderation
The partisan polity that American government seems to have become is one in which toleration for dissent and dialogue have given way to obedience and obeisance to leadership. Who were once the representatives of the people, have now in large part become fettered by a party machine that, as a rule, has concentrated the seat of political power in the hands of those few few in the upper echelon of party leadership. The resultant oligarchy, irrespective of its benevolence or malevolence, gravitates towards intolerance of diversity of opinion. Legislators become complicit; the gradual accrual of political capital necessitates as much. Political independence from party leadership becomes dangerously equivocal with political isolation and impotence. The antidote: an informed and civically responsible electorate. The Jefferson Library of Congress building, arguably the most magnificent architectural tribute to the American Democratic experiment an...