The child in question; The political parties. The reason history is important isn’t so that we live in the past, it’s so that we don’t relive it.
The founding fathers warned against the party system, claiming that it would cause division in the country — These guys must’ve known what they were talking about!
They were not visionaries from the future sent to warn us, they were merely scarred victims of the past.
They intentionally didn’t form parties because of the precedent experience; “Parties and factions are as corrupt as the British monarch system.”