LAD #5: Federalist #10

1. Why are factions so difficult to eliminate?
• They are so difficult to eliminate because they are inevitable part of the society. There are ways a couple of ways that a person could deal with factions. Which is either removing them completely or controlling their effects. In order, to actually eliminate them is to have each person have the same thoughts, opinions, and beliefs. The other option of controlling their effects would make one group happy but leave another group unhappy. However, both of these options have some positives and negatives even though it goes against everything colonists fought for during the Revolutionary War. It is the opposite of what America stands for. Trying to eliminate factions would have to deal with the compromise of independence and democracy which colonists are not in favor for.
2. If factions cannot be removed then how can they be controlled?
• There are two ways to control fractions, as I have stated above. The first is to give every person the same opinions, passions, and interests which will remove their liberty and democracy. The problem with this is that controlling liberty is very hard to do in society and especially within the political aspects of American's lives. The other option is to prevent the existence of alike interests in a majority of people by removing their freedom. Therefore, the only way to really control factions if they can not be eliminated is to get rid of American's freedom which they fought against the British for.