Instead of a trend I think we are in a transition

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18. i hate to say it

but i dont think the art of compromise will ever come back to washington. look at the way we here talk about Repubs, look at the way they talk about Dems. Its all us vs them, good vs evil. I'm not sure yet about Dems, but if you're a Repub that works w/ Dems, you've gotten primaried. People like Richard Lugar got voted out by his own party for not being "conservative enough" even though he was a right wing politician. I'm thinking that wave is the next wave to hit the Dem party. with 24 hr news, internet sites, fox news, rush limbaugh and the like, the Republican party will never come back to the table w/ the Dems and the Dems pretty much have no choice but to do the same. Sad times we're living in, cause its us the people that get hurt in the crossfire.

As for the French result, maybe the Trump election has woken the world up to this nonsense. we'll have to wait and see going forward, i certainly hope so.