But if you really read history, as your screen name suggests, you should take a little longer view of the political landscape in the U.S. before you indict one political party for being the "bad guys" and annoint the other as the "good guys".

I submit that both political parties can share the blame for our current state of affairs. There are lots of elements to the deterioration of the U.S. situation and thorough study shows that the Democrats can be assigned the principal blame for some and the GOP for others. If you want to begin with the financial situation our country finds itself in, consider that in 2001 the Chairman of the Federal Reserve was actually spending time worrying that our federal surplus might be getting too big! Under our current administration and Congresses since then, they have permitted the law that required a balanced federal budget to expire and have overspent our federal revenues to the tune of almost $1 trillion dollars. One party was in control of both the Congress and the White House for six of the eight years during which this occurred. And that party doesn't happen to be the one you are so vehemently criticizing.

I could easily study a little history and give equally damning examples of terrible governance by the other party, as well. And of course, there are many examples where the development of bad governance bridged the administrations of both political parties.

I'd suggest that we all calm down and rather than annoint one side and castigate the other, that we listen to what both are telling us, examine what both have done, and choose our political leadership not on slickly managed campaigns and misleading advertising, but on what the record shows and what campaign platform makes the most sense for our country.

I truly believe that such study and consideration can be accomplished calmly and without histrionics that upsets both ourselves as well as others.