Washington’s Warning About Political Parties

George Washington is universally recognized as our greatest president. Monday, Feb. 20, was the annual federal holiday specifically celebrating Washington’s Birthday.

In his 1796 Farewell Address, he wrote prophetic words of wisdom about political parties. Here is an excerpt from that address.

“[Political parties] are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.”

On Feb. 20, The Hill, a popular political newspaper in Washington, D.C., published a poll that said 73% of all Americans want the Democrats to work with the Trump Administration.

George Washington would have agreed with 73% of “We the People.”

Lynn McGinnis
Glendale