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The Greatest Obstacle to Restoration of Constitutional Government
Factions
Factions are rather interesting,
though often ignored by most, in the world we live in. Factions are
"somebody else", and we, individually, have no part in them, except
those that we are a part of -- though we don't really see them as
factions, only truth. We know what we believe; we know our moral
values; we know what right and wrong are; we know what we want to know;
everybody else is, if they don't agree with us, simply wrong.
So, let's begin by understanding what a faction is.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
A
party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition
to the prince, government or state; usually applied to a minority, but
it may be applied to a majority. sometimes a state is divided into
factions nearly equal.
...
whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are
united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,
adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and
aggregate interests of the community.
Or, the more simplistic:
A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.
Factions are, however, a way of life. We are all in factions and in many different areas.
For
the most part, people perceive, with very few exceptions, that there
are two political factions in this country; Democrats/Liberals, and,
Republicans/Conservatives. What the political philosophies of the two
"factions" are is inconsequential, at least at this point, to the
discussion. The point to be made here is that we have perceived that
there are only two factions, and anything else is hardly worthy of our
consideration.
With regard to other aspects of
our lives and our society, there are minor factions that we see, all of
the time. For example, the queer community is recognized as a faction,
though most fail to recognize that there is a large faction, which is
opposed to the smaller, recognized, faction. That larger faction is
those of us who, whether Christian, or not, understand the necessity for
moral values and standards within a country.
However,
legislation, political correctness, and/or influence through the press
tend to either render illegal, or, at least minimally subject those who
are a part of that larger faction, to ridicule for expressing
themselves, in dispute with the faction's principles.
The
net effect is to render that larger faction as inconsequential, or
illegitimate, providing a strong platform for the assertion of the
values of the lesser faction, even to the point of additional
legislation on their behalf.
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