fudfree,

I would stronlgy recommend that you read Federalist 10. You have some good points, but banning political parties won't do any good, because they would just re-emerge in an unofficial way.

As James Madison wrote, "The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects."

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