The havoc that politics inflicts upon this nation can been found every day in the partisan political hacks who go to any length to defend the immoral, illegal and ill-conceived actions of their parties.
We see it now in the brain-dead lemmings who defend Presidential Advisor Karl Rove's illegal leaking of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the media. We saw it during the eight years Bill Clinton occupied the White House with the Democratic die-hards who defended their President's lies and immorality.
When it comes to partisan political posturing, no party can claim the high ground. Both sides are shameless hypocrites, gleefully pointing out the misdeeds of the opposition while ignoring the same deeds within their own ranks.
It is a big part of the national shame that politics has brought upon America. Partisans are fools who put the interests of their political parties above what is best for the nation. They claim that anyone who disagrees with them is a traitor to American when, in fact, it is they who betray America by pandering to a partisan political philosophy.
When he left the Presidency, George Washington warned that politics would destroy the America that he and others had fought so hard to establish.
It's take more than two centuries to prove George right but his prediction was, and is, all too real.
"Politics, as practiced, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
Henry Adams