Yes, Doug, that's exactly what usually happens. It is what will normally happen in any system that's been divided up into two mutually hostile teams who are out to beat each other on the playing field as soon as the game commences...same as 2 football teams. They both go for the win, and they use any tactic they can to secure it...and will cheat too, if they can get away with it. This results in a permanently divided society that is full of suppressed hostility and resentment.

It doesn't seem like a wise or relevant way to run a society to me. That's why James Madison and some of your other founding fathers strongly warned against the danger of the rise of political parties. That's why I don't believe in political parties. I do, however, strongly believe in free democratic elections at regular intervals with a variety of candidates on the slate...but NOT through the mechanism of political parties, that's all.

I believe in an elected national assembly that is NOT divided up along party lines, but that represents the various (and many) views of all its seated members, each of whom has an equal say. I believe that those members could easily choose from among themselves a steering committee with a chief executive and officers, and they could do that by holding a vote amongst themselves.

It would make a lot more sense and cause a lot less spending, trouble, and waste than does your present party-based system, and it would free your public from the tyrrany of political party machines who really represent nothing but their own lust for power.