Washington viewed some types of contact with foreign countries as favorable. He believed that …show more content…
When he used the phrase “habitual hatred,” Washington meant that people would hate ideas that were presented from the opposite political party no matter what the idea was. The same concept translated to the opposite case of “habitual fondness”; the leader of a political party could have presented an idea that would have left the country in ruins, and the members of that political party would have blindly followed their leader. Washington was warning that people would begin to stop thinking for themselves, and become mindless slaves to their political party. Washington believed that the political system would lead to problems because neither political party would ever agree with each other. Therefore, Washington concluded that Americans would have been more enticed to argue with each other than to have solved America’s