Anonymous ID: 7674c6 March 2, 2026, 1:11 p.m. No.24331267   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1275 >>1288 >>1301

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6 US service members killed.

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TAMPA, Fla. – As of 4 pm ET, March 2, six U.S. service members have been killed in action. U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attacks in the region.

Tim ID: 7674c6 March 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m. No.24331430   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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https://www.civicsnation.org/2018/07/04/george-washingtons-warning-hyper-partisanship-demagogues/

 

When Washington became president, he hoped to establish a government that was above hyper-partisanship. He did not, however, want or expect a Cabinet full of obsequious toadies who would do his bidding without question. “A difference of opinion on political points is not to be imputed to freemen as a fault, since it is to be presumed that they are all actuated by an equally laudable and sacred regard for the liberties of their country.”

 

Despite Washington’s hopes for constructive differences of opinion in service to a higher good, dissension grew among the members of his Cabinet. He worried that the political divisions that were hardening could bring an end to the fragile, fledgling democracy. “If we mean to support the liberty and independence which it has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach,” he wrote to Rhode Island Governor Arthur Fenner.

 

Washington’s farewell speech at the end of his presidency repeated his entreaties against hyper-partisanship and demagoguery. In a line that we wish had not been deleted from his final address, Washington warned that in a large republic, democracy was unlikely to be undermined by a military coup, even if that coup were financed by the wealthy and powerful. “In such republics, it is safe to assert that the conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only, inlets of usurpation and tyranny.” And President Washington warned that a demagogue could exploit partisan sentiment to usurp the powers of the state:

 

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they 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, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

 

The solution for partisanship in government, Washington believed, was that although partisanship could not be removed from democracy, it could be “constrained by vigilant citizens and the sober-minded separation of powers.”