With the mid term elections coming up and the Senate majority down to 1 there is suddenly a push for more bi-partisan cooperation by at least some of the Republicans.
That is probably just not going to happen but I think if you consider what the framers of the constitution envisioned it shouldn't be so hard.
The fact that we evolved into a two party system with a President from one of those two parties is actually a misrepresentation of how the original constitution was written, at least as I read it.
The President was supposed to be a distinguished person who won the most support from the electoral college which was going to include primarily the elite of the country.
The Vice President would be the person with the second most votes.
This would logically mean that they would be two distinguished individuals who could be counted on to have the best interests of the country at stake, not the best interests of an individual party.
In fact the type of partisan politics we find ourselves in was never the intent of the founders.
In fact we had a president, John Adams and a vice president, Thomas Jefferson who were political antagonists.
Government is supposed to represent the people of the United States, not just some of the people. Clearly some issues are viewed differently by various groups and the ideal Government would find the acceptable middle ground which could garner enough votes to pass.
In our current all or nothing environment, we see little such compromise, except some horse trading by the party in charge to secure enough votes.
Some issues are clearly favored by a majority of Americans and should be no brainers for our politicians, except for the fact that they get their support from a partisan group that is in fact only interested in their interests, not the interests of the nation.
The real priority for 2018 would be to somehow eliminate some of this partisanship and replace it with good government and patriotism.
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