2020, the election campaigns have begun

[robkelk]

Nope.  The only way you get the system back into equillibrium is to choose defect.  Repeatedly.  Push an agenda through that minimizes your rivals while hopefully helping the country.  We need to do this until these people learn the lesson that you cannot treat your fellow leaders like shit day in, day out and expect love and respect in return.

Guys, let me ask a serious question here, why is it when people on the left talk about "Reaching across the aisle," its always the Conservatives who are expected to give up what they want and the Liberals who demand to get everything they want. We see this every damn year come budget time no matter who controls what office.

It appears we're playing Jeopardy! here. Labster gave an answer, and then Rajvik asked the matching question.

Edit: Rob, no offense, but if the United States had a third party to, as you put it, force a balance, what we would end up with is a congress that really didn't get anything done, kinda like the British house of Parliament over Brexit. Also, we arguably do, it's unofficial but the Establishment party has been the one running the show for years, handing off the reigns of power back and forth between the "existing" parties back and forth. The thing is that the American people on both sides have grown tired of "Business as Usual" that is DC politics and said, "NO, we're going to the extremes now, piss off."

Congress would only be deadlocked for as long as people refused to compromise.

Which, if the comments here are an accurate reflection of your politics, would be a long time... but eventually your politicians (on all sides) would learn the skills that most kindergarten children quickly figure out.