The present gridlock
in Congress has a lot to do with the reinstallation of strict party discipline
20 years ago. Implementations of the parties’ policies were seen as the only
viable solutions. In the 90s, Newt Gingrich[1] was a strong proponent of towing the party
line and has enforced this behavior in the Republican Party. The voter is led
to believe that the party line has already been established as a national
solution and any compromise would have to be interpreted as defeat.
Every two years,
citizens of the United States participate in elections for the U.S. House of
Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate. The President is elected every
four years. Power manifests itself by the changing party colors of the
president and the party majorities in the House or Senate. This is the ideal
situation and constitutes the stability and effectiveness of the American brand
of democracy. But, today‘s reality is different.
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