1.0 link 2058 <![CDATA[The Parties Are Over]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/the-parties-are-over_b_2058.html American political parties, as we have known them for two centuries, are disintegrating. They are being replaced by shifting coalitions that are forming and reforming constantly. This transition is leaving an awful lot of Americans adrift.

Because most of our founders did not trust the idea of political parties, they came into existence only reluctantly. Parties seemed too much like the dreaded “factions” that had arisen in Europe, what today we would call interest groups, concerned more with their own good...

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