So Obama won, and now the more radical right is saying they want to secede. Everyone else is replying with sentiments from 'yeah, sure, whatever' to 'Good riddance!' Both sides have been acting like spoiled children for the past twelve months, and it was fore-ordained that roughly half of the population would lose, and given the fever pitch the marketing machines of both parties were working at, it's no wonder the reactions of the more embedded voters are going over the line.
I have a different suggestion: let's secede from their parties.
The two political parties have been defining themselves not by their core beliefs, but by opposition to whatever the other party is saying. They aren't even thinking about compromising and getting things done. How can our government actually govern when it is paralyzed by partisan rhetoric? I think we need a separate centrist party to act as a mediator and tie-breaker for the two geezer parties who aren't talking to each other anymore. The vast majority of the population isn't far left or far right, and they currently have no representation in the two party system.
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