put this current crop of politicians to shame. There were vast philosophical differences back then and somehow they sweated it out in chambers and each gave ground until the middle was reached. Of course amongst them were dynamic men able to sell the merits of their side with stirring prose and wit.

They also had a common enemy, a tangible one that had mistreated them. There was no going back to that. They had to compromise to survive.

I think eventually it will sink in that we're facing that same common enemy and not a human one but a financial one that has the potential to relegate us to being a permanent third world country. Egos and greed give way to that type of threat over time and the very genetic coding that put us into cooperative and supportive societies in the first place will win.

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