Rep. Dean Philips (D-Minn.) said the quiet part out loud in an interview last week with Minneapolis’s News Talk 830 WCCO when he said, “I think America could be very well served by some type of a bipartisan ticket that restores faith in government.”

America is tired of the division and anger. They don’t trust the political establishment. They want unity.

We are stuck in a cycle we have seen before — the same kind of divide that led to the Civil War. An imbalance of power allows a minority power to control the government; they use federal power to serve their cause; and everyday citizens are left unrepresented and unheard.

Political power is divided into three factions: the majority power, the minority power and the powerless. In each faction, there will be radicals and moderates. When radicals gain control of the majority and minority factions, the powerless faction grows. The radicals seek control and chaos, lead with fear and swim in corruption. This fear and corruption leads people to leave the power structure, again growing the powerless faction — and leaving the government in the hands of a minority power.

Abraham Lincoln and other leaders united the powerless factions during the Civil War by hearing them out and........

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