The government is weaker now than it was as a democracy at the end of George Washington’s final term as president. Over the years, the government has parted ways with some of George Washington’s views, such as his views on international relations, partisanship, and constitutionalism.
George Washington believed that the United States of America should not rely on foreign powers. The goal was to keep the U.S. as neutral as possible when it came to warfare because Washington feared that the supposed ally would make enemies and drag the U.S. along with them. Throughout the years, the United States has become reliant on foreign powers. The country relies on Canada, China, Japan, Germany, and Mexico. These countries supply about fifty-eight percent of the United States' imported goods. The reliance on other countries has made our country weaker. If all trade and imports were to suddenly stop, the U.S. would be forced to make its own products. The process would be very expensive as would cause a rise in prices which also raises wages to keep up with inflation.
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Washington believed partisanship did not belong in the U.S., he believed it would lead to the “ruins of public liberty.'' Washington thought that unity was needed for a democracy to survive, he believed that political parties would divide and destroy the young United States. Today, the political parties view each other with more anger and fear than at any other time in history. Non-Republicans highly disapprove of Trump and his actions while Republicans make up a large part of his support. If the United States were to get rid of the labels and stereotypes that are our political parties, the people would have to focus less on hating each other and more on things that actually matter such as abortion or gun control. The people would stop worrying about having to fit into a certain political party and be able to vote without bias. Each individual would be able to pick and choose which issues they strongly support or disagree with.
Washington made it well known that he believed the people should support the law of the land at all costs. Immigration was more welcomed at that point in time, as it should have been considering the United States was founded by immigrants coming from England. In the Constitution, there was a restriction on citizenship and naturalization. Citizenship was limited to white people but there were no other restrictions on nonwhites. There was a lengthy required residency in order to obtain citizenship but this was a restriction on naturalization, not immigration. The only time a resident of the United States was deported to their home country as if they were considered dangerous to the peace and safety of the U.S. or if the United States was at war with their home country. In today’s government, Donald Trump has imposed a travel ban that prohibits issuing travel visas to citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries. He has attempted to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program for those brought to the country as children, that provides two years of deferred action from deportation and allows them to be eligible for a work permit in the U.S. The United States is a country because people chose to migrate from Europe. Native Americans were really the only residents in the Americas until about sixteen hundred when English settlers came to the place we now know as Jamestown, Virginia. Without immigration, the United States would have never become the country we know it to be.
Since George Washington's final farewell as president, the United States government has gone completely downhill. The major reliance on foreign powers, the constant partisanship between the political parties, and the unconstitutional reaction to immigration are all reasons why our government is in dire need of help.
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