[NotSammyHagar]

I don't know what you mean "the government" worked its way into a period of partisanship. Sure there is terrible deadlock. One party has moved to an extreme and is trying to dismantle democracy so that it can force things it's way. Only one party has gotten to the situation that previous presidents and leaders in the party are almost uniformly against the future next president from that party.

[johndubchak]

In my eyes, the partisanship is the deadlock. I didn't want to make it a political discussion or turn it into a flame war over blaming one party over another. Both parties, or members on each side, have a vested self-interest in maintaining that deadlock. That's really all I meant.