The biggest issue facing America right now is the same issue we
faced in 2012: political gridlock. Governor Kasich of Ohio recently stated: “The
issues facing America are not that hard to solve. The problem is the partisan
divide and political gridlock that doesn’t allow smart people to work together
to solve our problems.” The previous quote is paraphrased because I do not remember
the exact wording. Governor Kasich is right.
The political divide is so deep that you would not be able to
determine that the Democrats and Republicans are campaigning for the same
office. Watch one debate and you hear a discussion about one set of issues;
watch the other party’s debate and you hear a completely different set of
issues. They don’t even agree on the issues facing America. Furthermore, each side
take turns belittling the other in the manner of our new era of “angry-politics.”
The political divide has resulted in Congress offering no
solutions to the problems America faces: national security/terrorism; corporate
inversions and loss of jobs; a growing income inequality; out of control
illegal immigration; a failing society that has increased racial tensions; eighteen
trillion dollars of debt; and a broken heath care system that is on track to
break the US Treasury.
Congress’ lack of solutions has caused President Obama to take
unconstitutional executive actions that have further increased the political
divide.
The political divide, the failing society, and the lack of hope for
the future have given birth to angry-politics. America is facing the
possibility of either a crude, condescending businessman or a socialist
becoming President of the United States. How embarrassing would it be if either
Donald Trump or Senator Sanders became President? Can you imagine either of
those two men being the face of America? My apologies to Senator Sanders for
lumping you in with Donald Trump. I believe that you are a good-hearted,
sincere man. My embarrassment with you is your politics. America will never be
a socialist country. I say that even though I believe we do need a bit more
socialism than we have now (it’s the only heath care fix I can envision). But
you are proposing far too much socialism.
The political divide has even caused a fracture within the
Republican Party. Yesterday, the conservative periodical, National Review,
released an issue with multiple conservative thought leaders speaking out
against the Republican’s front-running presidential candidate. Thank you
National Review! Although most of your condemnations of Donald Trump were for
his lack of conservative credentials, you also included references to his
crudeness and narcissism. It is his crudeness that has exploded our partisan politics
into angry-politics. We have not done
well with partisan politics, we would do even worse with angry-politics.
Fairway Frank is endorsing Governor Kasich for president based solely
on his common sense approach to politics – that politicians must work together
and not against each other. If we cannot fix our political gridlock, we cannot
address the other problems. I agree with Governor Kasich – none of the problems
are hard to solve. We have a lot of smart people in America and we can fix our
problems. I also endorse Senator Rubio for Vice President. An Ohio-Florida ticket
of two reasonable men would be hard to beat.
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