Party loyalty!? Parties separate or divide-up the essence of democracy i.e. they fracture the Bottom of a triadic form of government which is the essential support of the Top of a democratic form of government. The Bottom may have parties but that's only to gather the individuals around the voting booths to support any one candidate. If an individual is a good worker, a good father, mother, a good tax payer, a good supporter of his, her, family, what difference does belonging to one Party or another make? Parties would be ok if they both supported democratic values. Unfortunately, Parties do not support the Constitution as written. In our form of government only the candidates for the Supreme Court are asked if they will support the Constitution before they are selected. This is supposedly to insure objectivity in implementing interpretive practices. (so much for that) Party has no place in Constitutional adjudication. Party loyalty only weakens the underlying form of a democratic government i.e. it weakens a government "for the people". Parties that say "less government" don't know what they are talking about. Equally the case, Parties that say "more government" is not the answer either. Real "less" invites anarchy while real "more" invites autocracy. Surely, power is necessary at the Top of government, but just plain "less" or "more" government is not going to work. Power must be exercised "for the People", if its a democratic form of government. Parties just 'fracture' the unity of the Bottom of government into factions that acquire an "imaginary" feeling of being in control of the political aspects of the social. "Party" divides the People. Democracy unifies the People at the bottom into a "strength" that emphasizes the Freedom and Equality of each individual. The strength of the Bottom is in Numbers. "Strength", in the social and in politics, comes from a political beginning point that celebrates the Freedom and Equality of each individual.