It is becoming harder and harder for American government to get things done. If today’s politics had existed in 1941, could we have won World War II?
There are two reasons for government’s present difficulty making major decisions. One is what columnist Thomas Friedman called “one party democracy”: “a two-party system where only one party is interested in governing and the other is in constant blocking mode.”
Friedman sarcastically said he sometimes wished we could be “China for one day.” A one party autocracy like China can, he said, at least make big, hard and important public policy decisions.
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