Government is at a Standstill

" 'While Sciences Advance, Government is at a Standstill. The same political parties, which now agitates the United States, have existed through all time.' Precisely...While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill; little better understood, little better practiced now, than three or four thousand years ago. What is the reason? I say, parties and factions will not suffer improvements to be made. As soon as one man hints at an improvement, his rival opposes it. No sooner has one party discovered or invented an amelioration of the condition of man, or the order of society, then the opposite party belies it, misconstrues it, misrepresents it, ridicules it, insults it, and persecutes it." -John Adams