Polls and Poles

The tendency to attribute all that is bad to a single leader and all that us good to the collective or even external happenstance, obfuscates the deeper issues in the inner-workings of an organization. This appears to be the case in the current, ideologically polarized US government, and while news networks on either pole stoke the angry flames of people on the same side of this dichotomy, we the people are not being served. Anyone who is fixated on destroying the enemy within by voting with an ideological heart rather than a pragmatic mind is simply locking in more deadlock. If we are going to get anywhere, it will be via the middle of the road, and this means compromise.