{"id":40357,"date":"2018-11-10T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40357"},"modified":"2018-11-10T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:00:51","slug":"politics-the-cancer-that-must-be-eradicated-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40357","title":{"rendered":"Politics: The Cancer that must be Eradicated once and for all"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Politics: The Cancer that must be Eradicated once and for all<\/a><\/h3>\n

In the United States two political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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The 2016 election of Donald Trump as president set off a tidal wave of anger and resentment that has divided America into two bitterly opposed camps. Those on the left consider Trump to be the embodiment of evil whereas many on the right see him as a \u201cdisrupter\u201d and champion of the common man. The recent mid-term elections revealed that this conflict between pro-Trump and anti-Trump forces continues unabated. The political divide in America now is characterized by revenge-minded Democrats who are determined to remove Trump from office and those who will fight to prevent this from happening. As a result, the country will be mired in a lengthy political power struggle while important issues affecting the lives of millions will be neglected. America \u2013 sad to say \u2013 is currently a nation in crisis.<\/p>\n

If a team of scientific crisis management experts were assembled to assess the cause of this problem they would surely arrive at the conclusion that it is \u201cpolitics\u201d pure and simple. The solution, therefore, would be the abolition of all political parties.<\/p>\n

This is actually not a new idea. The French philosopher Simone Weil made this suggestion more than seventy years ago. This seemingly radical proposal has been resurrected and supported by the award-winning Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk. As he pointed out this past summer:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the United States two political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War. Across the Western world, political parties have turned parliaments into digital circuses,\u00a0provoking waves of contempt among ordinary people\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Politics: The Cancer that must be Eradicated once and for all In the United States two political parties have now divided the nation with the kind of violent partisan rhetoric that erupted just before the Civil War. The 2016 election of Donald Trump as president set off a tidal wave of anger and resentment that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5549,920,22894,637,22895,14514,827],"class_list":["post-40357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-civil-war","tag-paul-kindlon","tag-politics","tag-simone-weil","tag-the-duran","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40358,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357\/revisions\/40358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}