the solution 3.0

So what am I driving at with all this?

Yeah, I’m a big fat lefty. And I know in my bones — that if all of us big fat lefties and all of them big fat righties could stop fearing the extreme ideals of the other side long enough to find a real meeting place in the middle, we could radically improve this country and the world on more levels than any of us could imagine.

So really what I’m saying is — the problem is the division. Divided we fall. And not enough people are trying to unite us — so that we may truly stand as a nation. I’m getting sick of being pissed at the right wing, while I’m getting more pissed at the division it’s self. I wish more people were. I wish people were saying “Hey! We are divided and it sucks! This fucking division is the first thing that we have to fix.”

Or at least start throwing some unifying ideas on the table. How about a rule for congress? Pass two bills that unite us for every one that we’re divided on. Or how about changing the structure of The White House?

Basically, the outcome of any presidential election satisfies the will of roughly half of the nation. Only about half of the country approves of any given president. When you think about it that way, it doesn’t seem right. Does it? It could even be called un-American. However, we are not likely to see it change, because the average 50/50”ish” Left /Right division in this country is not likely to change for such a long time.

We could change how we structure The White House…
How about no running mate? Whoever loses the election get’s to be Vice President. Sure, not an entirely original thought. In fact we’v seen versions of it on film and television. And by no means would it be a perfect solution to anything.

But it would, with no doubt, bring the executive branch of the federal government vastly closer to being a more complete reflection of the will of the American people as a whole. And to at least try to accomplish that… the will of the American people as a whole — That effort alone may be the most American accomplishment in the history of this nation.

But it may be that nothing so positive and unifying could ever happen here. Maybe we’v grown too comfortable with the division. Perhaps this civil cold war of ideologies has become too ingrained in our culture. The cynic in me thinks that this hatred has irreparably infected the heart our society. But my optimistic side tells me that if we were able to stop hating the Russians, we should be able to stop hating each other.