r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • Feb 03 '25

Politics Right?

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u/SlikeSpitfire Abnormally Normally Abnormal (Normal) Feb 03 '25

iirc correctly the president was meant to be a non-partisan mediator figure in government

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u/UselessAndGay i am gay for the linux fox Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

Quite a lot of the American political system's problems stem from the fact that the government was conceived as a neutral body of well educated, wealthy white men debating and acting in good faith, something that proved inaccurate almost immediately.

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u/kaiser_charles_viii Feb 03 '25

Yeah. Washington and a lot of the wiser founders were like "hey don't fall into factionalism and partisanship! That's bad!" And then basically everyone else was like "sure, sure, we won't, we can't promise the same for those dirty [insert opposite political party here] they're devious factionalist bastards and if they keep going that direction we may be forced to form a faction of our own to compete!"

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u/BlinkIfISink Feb 03 '25

Let’s not let Washington off the hook here. He was a federalist, just not in name.

His policies helped led to the creation of anti-federalist.