It's high time the Democrats face the monster that bedevils them, the Republicans. Let them come together even if they revert to fisticuffs. Eventually, they will reach a compromise and move forward. Today they are looking at each other as enemies with war the only solution, a tactic that forgives all sins. When one side prevails, the other seethes for years. But the country suffers.The Republicans have a few trump cards (no pun intended): family, tradition, heritage, economic opportunity and most recently, the working man's ethos. The Democrats want to extend the social contract to expand healthcare, education, economic and environmental interventions, welfare, and other social spending. They are really two sides of the same conundrum. Time both camps start talking about the American condition in anthropological terms.The smoke from political partisanship clouds the fields that once grew wheat, and forever leaves the fields fallow and eventually poisoned with corpse. The only winners are the media and professional pols.

It's high time the Democrats face the monster that bedevils them, the Republicans. Let them come together even if they revert to fisticuffs. Eventually, they will reach a compromise and move forward. Today they are looking at each other as enemies with war the only solution, a tactic that forgives all sins. When one side prevails, the other seethes for years. But the country suffers.The Republicans have a few trump cards (no pun intended): family, tradition, heritage, economic opportunity and most recently, the working man's ethos. The Democrats want to extend the social contract to expand healthcare, education, economic and environmental interventions, welfare, and other social spending. They are really two sides of the same conundrum. Time both camps start talking about the American condition in anthropological terms.The smoke from political partisanship clouds the fields that once grew wheat, and forever leaves the fields fallow and eventually poisoned with corpse. The only winners are the media and professional pols.

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