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Amen. Agree politicians need learn how to disagree in earnest while remaining professional. Civility, with strength, political party support with integrity, arguments with competing facts, and votes in our Congress based on what is best for America rather than the politician. Many are great representatives and I highly respect them. There are several that make me cringe in despair every time they speak.

Agree, with one small caveat: it's not that politicians don't *know how to disagree in earnest, respectfully yet candidly, it's that they've done the math and it's not what we voters want. Compromise is a death sentence when both sides have convinced the bulk of their base that the other side is Satan reincarnated.