Extensive and consolidated factions under the name of parties are now not only a matter of course, but popular imagination can conceive of no other way by which officials may be selected and governmental affairs carried on.
Dewey observes that the dominance of parties has become normalized in political processes.
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What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.
But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.