In Part III of “An Open Letter to My Fellow Americans at the Dawn of a New Decade,” Joseph makes an appeal against partisanship and against partisan politics in America, exploring the danger of political parties to democracy and the bipartisan complicity of the left and the right in US empire and US war crimes. In this way, the piece hopes to eviscerate the illusion of partisanship in Washington and to free Americans from the prison of partisan politics and from this degrading and enslaving lie. Finally, the piece makes an appeal for peace between partisans.