Election 2018 — Why we need a Democratic House and Republican Senate

Whether you’re Republican or Democrat, there is a good reason for why we need two separate parties to control the House and the Senate.

It’s the same reason we need an independent Congress, Justice Department and Executive Branch of government. It’s called “checks and balances.”

It parallels why for our minds to function optimally we need it to have logical, emotional and conscience (moral) bearing components. Logic pertains to what logically makes sense (i.e. more social services for the 99% who need them for Democrats vs. less social services for the 1% who don’t need them for Republicans), emotional pertains to what feels good/bad (i.e. more guns for more people to stop mass shootings for Republicans vs. more gun control so that mentally unstable people who’ll still be able to get guns, don’t, for Democrats), conscience bearing pertains to what feels right/moral/ethical (i.e. what would your mother say about the decisions you make?).

When one component of our minds — either the logical, emotional or conscience/moral part — or one component of tripartite government — Justice Dept, Executive, Congress — grossly overruns the other two, that singular element might get away with it in the short term, but the entire enterprise will fail in the long term.

The reason we need three vs. two components, is that with only two components, we run the risk of it devolving into a “zero sum” game where they are so busy fighting each other, that whoever they supposedly represent, gets lost in the battle. Imagine warring divorcing couples who without a judge to intervene would devolve into The War of the Roses.

And thus, we come back to the midterm election 2018.

When we have a Republican Congress and Republican Executive Branch, the chance of Congress serving as a check to balance a Republican President/Executive Branch is slim (BTW the same could be said for a wholly Democratic Congress and Democratic President). When an entire Congress matches the same party of the seated President (as is currently the case), the opposite party is left to taking any desperate, even guerilla type measures — including stirring up the media (as is currently the case) — to undermine a Congress and President from the same party.

When an entire Congress is the opposite party of the seated President, the opposite party will do everything it can to resist cooperating long enough until their party is back in power as the President. As a result, not much will be accomplished.

However, when Congress is made up of one party controlling the House while the other controls the Senate, there is at least the possibility of negotiation and compromise because there won’t be the same level of desperation when the President and Congress are all from the same party or all from different parties.

Just as none of us should leave home to vote without our logical, emotional and conscience/moral parts of mind influencing the votes we cast; the results of the election shouldn’t leave November 6 without a Congress and Executive Branch that serve as checks and balances to the other.