Partisan Cancer

There seems to be a World Wrestling Federation mentality in our political system that has brought our country to a standstill. We have become a polity where name calling, posturing and the bending of the truth is more popular than considering what our fellow citizens have to say. It happens with plumbers as well as politicians, so called professionals that make a nice living carrying out the rule of law in our country. It is an ugly cancer that has stumped intellectual discourse and threatens to completely paralyze our polity.

The Founding Fathers designed a Democratic Republic with checks and balances to ensure that our country does not change too rapidly. We are democracy to protect the majority, and a republic to protect the minority. We have three branches of government with specified duties to ensure our civility and guarantee the rule of law. So we don’t really need the partisan cancer that has plagued our polity.

The violent partisanship that has gripped our country has the potential to be our downfall if it is not checked. We are a resilient people but we are not a stagnant people. The Constitution is a living document and government was designed to grow and adjust with the social, political and economic changes. The Founding Fathers were correct in setting up our system to move slowly, but they did set it up to move. They engaged in deep ideological debates that sometimes lead to compromise, sometimes to stalemate, but they made a conscience effort to come to the table and hear what their fellow citizens had to say.

Don’t the American people deserve a government that will listen to all ideas? Don’t our representatives get paid to do just that? We are giving you money and entitlements, the only thing we want is that you do your job.