In the next couple of weeks and months, we will be seeing some of the bills and acts that Obama mentioned in his jobs address, such as the tax for millionaires that Lexi brought up, that will regretfully either not make it through Congress or will emerge in less effective and essentially powerless forms. The main reason for this is the bipartisan nature of America's political scene that has, as George Washington predicted in his Farewell Address, lead to the creation of two warring factions that would rather attack and hinder each other than work together to solve the many problems that our country faces today.
So how does one go about ending the bipartisan nature of American politics? I for one, think that a common enemy situation might be able to solve the problem. I think that if a really extreme and controversial President were elected, such as Ron Paul or Michele Bachmann, the moderates of their party, in this case the Republican Party, would eventually reject their President's crazy ideas, and choose to work and compromise with the other party, Democrats in this case, instead. This would have more of a long term effect rather than a short term effect, since it will take a little while for the moderates of one side to join the other and it will take even more time for the dissidents to settle into their new party (there would still be multiple political parties, except that the extreme party would be hopefully small enough to have little effect in politics) and then break away from the one party to establish smaller political parties for similar contingencies, since a party consisting of that many people with that many different ideas will quickly collapse into numerous smaller groups.
This is just my solution for dealing with the current bipartisan situation and there are plenty of other options out there, but in order to decide how to fix this problem, one must first consider if the current bipartisan situation is enough of a problem that it needs to be immediately addressed or it be left alone with the hope that it will naturally fix itself over time?
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I think that our two party system sometimes halts the nation's progress. It is hard for any incumbent president to get all the votes needed to pass a particular bill.The politics comes first before the welfare of the people. Some politicians fail to vote for a bill because it is proposed by the opposing party. I wish they would look more into the content of the bill instead of the party the author belongs to. I think the idea of a common enemy is a good proposal. Politicians need to realize that their main concern is what is the best for many Americans and not their party or their own interest. Different political parties might help in removing the control of power in Congress. With small parties, there will be less concentration of power or dominance of a single party in a politcal system. However, this might pose some problems since the country will be divided into different groups and it might be harder to attain a single goal.
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