Political Parties, II

So incredibly,

Americans didn't always have

Democrats and Republicans.

We used to have the Whigs.

The Whigs!

I'm not politically savvy enough

with the history

to give you a lesson

about the roots

of all the parties

named and unnamed,

ahtough certainly

there were obvious allegiances,

divides,

all the way back to the beginning,

and I'm not just talking

Virginians

and everyone else,

or Bostonians,

who led the revolutionary charge

and were thus

the actual first party

in the country

(I heard they had tea!),

much less explain

what exactly

the Whigs

built themselves

around,

so this is just

an introduction.

How do you do?