We need to remember the first sentence of our Constitution and remind each other of it every time we see our initials: our government is officially "US". Even when any of us don't like the way things turn out, it's on US. We are the ones who can do something about it. And as long as things are run by US and not THEM or HIM or HER, it will only work by following the precedents set by the guys at Philadelphia in 1787. They were civil, listened to each other though stubborn and outspoken in pursuit of their preferred outcomes, and, in the end, agreed to painful compromises in order form a more perfect union ("make government work better").
One of the reasons I admire our President is that he approaches government with the attitude expressed in the paragraph above.
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