"Party Loyalty" and the Purpose of Parties (warning: Long read)

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11. This was OK then

"We must hang together, or we will assuredly all hang separately."

Although those words were not spoken in the context of political parties, they encapsulate the fundamental reality that only by acting in solidarity can those without wealth and/or power effectively counterbalance and oppose those with the inherent power of wealth and position.

But not now, as now parties represent the wealthy and powerful, and no longer represent the common man.