Brings back memories...

To all those who think
unity is over-rated

To all those who think that
divided government
is a necessary virtue

To all those who don't understand that
the only thing we need to separate
are the branches of government

To all those who aren't too concerned about a unitary executive, while they scoff at the idea of a unified electorate

To all those who are obsessed with dividing:

Black against White

Women against Men

Poor against Educated

Uneducated against Wealthy

Old against Young

Liberals against Moderates

Idealists against Pragmatists

Suddenly the same party system, that The Founders lamented, wasn't enough. It takes a division between virtually every slice of the electorate in order to advance the obfuscation and careerist interests of would-be unitary executives. Divide the Electorate and Unify the Branches of Government. Bring solitary "Deciders" into power and recycle them between (D) and (R) often enough to convince the electorate that the cosmetic distinctions between them are more meaningful than anything else. Dissuade the electorate from appreciating every distinction that once existed between corruption and reform, transparency and obscurity, ethics and self-interest, collusion and intervention.

To do all this might seem burdensome. But given a series of sufficiently motivated chief executives, all those distractions can be put to use in keeping the electorate too confused to demand something more, too confused to demand something better. All those distractions are to be put to use in keeping us too confused to demand something more and better than merely allowing the President to wield, retain and expand all the power it's accumulated for current and future occupants of the White House.

Illustration above by B. Franklin