recipe for a divided country

ingredients 
1 constitution
1 house of representatives
1 senate
2 political parties
politicians w/o term limits 
party rules

preparation 
1. sort the house politicians according to party
2.  sort the house politicians according to age
3. sort the senate politicians according to party
4. sort the senate politicians according to age
5. take the oldest, most partisan, politician from the majority party in the house
6. make them speaker of the house
7. take the oldest, most partisan, politician from the majority party in the senate
8. make them senate majority leader

voila!

a divided country

the oldest, most partisan, majority party politician in the USHOR (who could represent the least populated district of the 435 USHOR districts) now has control over the agenda of the entire USHOR.

and, the oldest, most partisan, majority party politician in the senate (who could represent the least populated state of our 50 states) now has control over the agenda of the entire US Senate.

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had enough? 

who do you trust?
the republican and democratic parties that are financed by billionaire corporations and billionaire PACs that supply us with the candidates for public office? 

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   - biased news media?

to fix our dysfunctional government is simple and easy--stop voting for  republican and democratic party candidates, including incumbents. 

voting for a republican or a democrat is a vote for their party. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIAJl-wZElg

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in the next election--national, state or local--don't vote republicans or democrats. even with their billion dollar donors, if voters don't vote for republicans and democrats, then the republican and democratic parties will shrivel up and die.

nothing will be better for our country. 

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the same goes for the news media--stop patronizing biased news media that lobby for the republican and democratic parties instead of reporting the news factually and truthfully. they'll go out of business. nothing will be better for the USA.