Hurt by Political Party

Sometimes in my graphically imaginative thinking, I picture political parties, not as organized groups (of mostly men) formed for the purpose of garnering power to raise the quality of life and standard of living for the rest of the people, but as big, old, angry, rouge-edged, rusting, rumbling, dangerous machines menacingly facing the poor.
 I imagine that the poorer, weaker and less educated these people are, the more dangerous and fearfully threatening to their survival this machine is.
 I hope I am wrong.
 I hope the machine is not as brutish as I imagine, and I hope it has come to help the poor and not trample them into the ground, because people do not forget pain.
 Pain makes people angry, especially when it is caused by the willful targeting of the  ambitions of those who might have been better off had the machine not stood in their way.
It has now dawned on me like a beam of light through grey skies, that the problem is not the party. The party is an innocent thing. It's the men who drive it. Those who sit at its helm.
 They think their power is a gun instead of a shovel. They believe that their strengths are meant to be daggers;that their hands and feet are fangs, talons and claws; that their responsibility is to leave a legacy of blood and broken lives.
 But people do not forget pain.
I say like Moses to the  Pharos: Let the people go. Let the young girl get the available scholarship to go to college regardless of her political party affiliation or whose girl friend she is. Let her go into the future and build her life and her country. Let the young boy become our own engineer that fixes our road and maintain our electricity grid without regard to which political party his parents supported in the last election, or will support in the one to come.
 Political parties come and go, but nations go on long after the machine has morphed or rotted away.
 Much of the political conflict we witness to this day is caused by wicked deeds done to ordinary people by powerful people who have sat in the seat of  political machine inflicting pain.... and people do not forget pain.