Anything that has the potential for increasing bipartisan dialogue is good in my book.

I feel like our country has been marking time for too long.

It’s easier to like them and get along and cooperate. When knowing people as a group, whether as Democrats, Republicans, Muslims, African-Americans, or whoever, it’s so much easier to lump everyone together and applying the worse traits to everyone. But, if I know Larry or Martha or Bob or Mandy, I know them as a person. And I’m much more likely to like them. Would probably work with our politicians, too.

but dilute the partyovercountryism that the separation of the aisle promotes. Try to bring back the idea that they are elected to represent all of the people, not just the ones with the squeakiest wheels. Not just the ones who voted for them.

If an elected member of Congress did not have a secure seat, he or she would be more willing to compromise on major issues.

and what good does it do for the voters? None.