2. Why Everyone Should Be Hated

  Many think that Americans have never been so partisan or bitterly divided, or politics been nastier. Not the case.

  Jefferson vs Adams 1800. Jefferson wrote "Adams was a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and the firmness of a man nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman". In return, Adams asked voters "Are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames, hoary heads bathed in blood, female chastity violated, children writhing on the pike and halberd? Great God of compassion and justice, shield my country from destruction."

J:  Oh Yeah?                A: Sez You

  28 years later, John Adams son, John Quincy Adams, said of his opponent Andrew Jackson, that he had the personality of a dictator, was too uneducated to be President and said his wife was a "dirty black wench... prone to open and notorious lewdness". Jackson's camp returned the favor by claiming that Adams had sold his wife's maid as a concubine to the Czar of Russia.

J: I'm taller             A: Bite me

In those days, they knew how to turn a phrase. Against this background, current politicians calling each other flip-floppers is really namby pamby stuff. If the counselor sneaks off for a cigarette break, they are liable to short sheet each other's beds, or wait until someone passes out, humiliate them and then tweet the photo.

The people who are really PO'ed are the voters, and deservedly so.
Everyone hates everyone.

  Republicans are mad at each other because if you take all the American male multi-millionaire Republicans over the age of 35, that's a pretty big pool from which to draw. And the BEST they can come up with is Santorum and Romney? If you're a moderate Republican, you know Santorum is a hateful Pentecostal theocrat dingbat in a Catholic suit. If you're a conservative Republican (otherwise known as a Conserva-Nazi by the elite lame-stream media), Romney ain't fooling anybody. Not only is he a liberal, but a freakin Mormon too. What else could you add to that to make it worse? Oh yeah, he killed his dog.

  Meanwhile, Democrats don't even GET a choice. Lots of Democrats don't want Obama, but no matter how much you are disappointed in Obama, if you're a Democrat... you get Obama. If that's not bad enough,  you get Biden along with him, adding insult to injury. If you are a gen-u-wine progressive liberal (otherwise know as a "lib-tard" by Foxaholics), you know that Obama is just another corporate lackey in a suit. And no matter what part of the Democratic Party spectrum you occupy, no one has a clue what his real goals are. If you're not scared, you're just not paying attention.

Republicans hate Democrats because Obama is ruining this country.

Democrats hate Republicans because Bush ruined this country.

My Fellow Americans

Clearly, we're screwed. The only possible solution seems to be if both the Democrats and Republicans political conventions are "brokered". That happens when there are not enough delegates for any one candidate to win on the first vote.  (Wikipedia on Brokered Conventions) Delegates don't HAVE to vote for who they were sent to vote for. They can do anything they want. Maybe the way the political revolution can happen is through the convention delegates. Let's say they all agree not to cast the votes for whom they were delegated, but instead broker the convention.

 Democratic candidates, unfettered by obligation, can do what they really want to do and nominate Clinton. Times were good then.
 Republican candidates, unfettered by obligation, can do what they really want to do and nominate Reagan. Times were good then.

Or...what about REAL bipartisanship. Reagan as President (dead or alive, he's still a favorite) and Clinton as Vice President. Now THERE's a ticket.

Great God of compassion and justice, 
shield my country from destruction.