Anybody following the news must have heard about a pack of giant asteroids scheduled to strike the United States within the next 50 years. The asteroids will however not comprise metal and rock but rather, threats wrapped in a specialized energy field and headed our way. These threats will polarize as well as paralyze us. Having attended TED conference and witnessed Jim Hansen make predictions about global warming; I can attest that, his predictions are coming true. According to Jim, global warming will cause rising of sea level that will make the low-lying cities globally to be submerged. This phenomenon can only be equated to a collision between a giant asteroid and the earth. What is unfortunate is that we aren't doing anything about it. This means that the effects are becoming difficult and expensive every day that passes.
On the following week, I attended a dinner party in Washington. I knew I was going to meet conservative intellectuals such as Yuval Levin. In preparation for the meeting, I read Levin's article "Beyond the Welfare State." According to the article, nations are accepting that the social democratic welfare is becoming unaffordable and untenable, dependent upon demographic model as well as dubious economics of a bygone era. America has borrowed a lot of money and used it in fighting the Revolutionary War, Civil war, WWI and WWII. Even though the battles have been expensive, the country has paid for it severally. Because of servicing these debts, America's GDP is unstable and has been rising since the 70s. Although underfunded tax cuts have contributed to the GDP rise, the rise is primarily due to the increase in entitlement spending and in particular, Medicare. Because of this, we are approaching the indebtedness level, similar to those of WWII.
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Unless we take actions, we are doomed. The unfortunate thing is that the people in the other party cannot see reality. The problems awaiting us can be solved, but our bid tragedy is being hyper-partisan. To understand our problems and their solutions, we can focus on moral psychology. According to a morality principle, morality binds and blinds human beings into teams. These teams circle sacred values, and this makes human beings go blind to objective reality. This principle explains how we moved from hunting and gathering into building gigantic cities. People's unity arises when they circle something. This unity generates trust and power to do things. Morality can also blind people and cause them to distort reality. When this is the case, we begin separating everything into evil versus good. The same case happens between republicans and democrats and makes it hard for them to cooperate. However, we can do a lot of things to avert the disunity. One of the things is coming up with reforms. This is because much of our dysfunction is related to Congress actions in the 1990s. These actions created a much more dysfunctional as well as polarized institution.
To deal with a hyper-polarized institution, we can have fewer-partisans elected, and after closing party primaries only the committed democrats and republicans will vote. However, the main problem is not that we only elect bad people into Congress. Most of the people going into Congress are intelligent, hard-working, good people with a desire to solve problems. The main problem is that these people change after getting into Congress. They are forced to act in a way rewarding hyper-partisanships and punishing independent thinking.
