Things are awfully polarized, and it seems like there are so many important issues that two factions who see themselves as opposite sides of the coin simply refuse to agree on. Politicians and pundits seems to just dig rhetorical trenches and plant themselves firmly in them, refusing to cede any ground to the other side.
Maybe we should just set up two parallel governments. The liberals can choose to be governed by one, and the conservatives can choose to be governed by the other. Why couldn't two (or several) governments operate on the same territory? We already have federal, state, county and municipal governments all operating side by side in the same places. Common functions or anything that can be agreed upon (prosecuting people for murder, traffic violations) can be dealt with by a central entity created by something akin to a treaty (sort of a UN between the liberals and the conservatives, but with more governing power?). This suggestion probably wouldn't solve the problem of corporate dominance over our governmental structures, though.
But if we did have two separate governments, we could have single-payer health care, a living wage, and an end to hunger and homelessness on one side, and a pile of stingy dipshits who like to swim in money on the other.
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