As the last two years of the Obama Administration  come to an end we have to wonder who will be running for our nation's highest office?  If there is anything we have learned is that we as a nation can not continue to maintain the segregation we are seeing between Democrats and Republicans.  In fact, we must consider whether the two party system even works any more; or is bipartisanship no loner representing the people of this nation. Thus one must ask is the system broken, full of greed and childish behavior with its agenda of promoting their parties views.

Growing up in Boston I was privileged to work for both Kerry and Dukakis as well as Kennedy and then U.S. Representative Brian Donnelly. What I learned from living in what was traditionally a Democratic state and having the great Tip O'Neil from Massachusetts as the Speaker of the House was a that once you were elected to office you represented the people.  I was told that serving in public office was the highest privilege man could do for his fellow man and country.

I watched in the 80s where the staunchest of Democratic and  Republicans could work TOGETHER AS AMERICANS to promote the betterment of a nation.  So where have we gone so wrong?  When did this nation become one of Liberals verses Conservatives and worse people of color verses Caucasians?Where did things go so wrong?

Why are we accepting our elected officials to represent the party verses their constituents?  When did we decide that it was acceptable that our elected refuse to work together, that we allow the to vote themselves raises when they allow our troops to go without pay or the government shut down?  I mean seriously where did we go so wrong to allow our nation once one nation under God become a run down society operated by over paid self gratifying "children"?

We as a nation need to step up  and realize that as a country we can only exist as a unified nation.  We need our elected to serve the public and not their parties.  We need leadership to put our economy back on track and our once pursuit for being number a goal that is sought after.

Our nation is no longer the shining bastion of freedom, the streets of gold and the land of milk and honey.  We enact polices to pay farmers to not grow food while others go hungry, we allow private companies and organizations to care for our wounded veterans when government employees of the VA actively deny veterans access to benefits that we paid for in blood.  How does our educational system produce students who are so poorly prepared that we dumb down their education to ensure they are promoted? How do we allow our nation's infrastructure to fall in such disrepair that more than half our country's bridges, tunnels, levies, power grids and roads are in need of a $4 Trillion over haul.

The answer to how this has all happened is that we have accepted bad behavior and voting by party to become an accepted policy at the expense of the people and nation.  As we will shortly be seeing who will run and be nominated for President it is time that we wake up and refuse to have anyone represent the party and not the people.  We need to instill in our elected that the needs of a nation are not addressed by voting party lines but by representing the people who put them in office!