Can We Save Our Country from Partisan Poison?

Wed. June 27, 2012:

Gentle readers, here is one of the more thoughtful pieces spelling out the depth of
our democratic republic's partisanship disease [the raison d'être, we recall, for our modest blog],
plus, hints of what to do about it:

                                                     
                                                           commentator Clive Crook

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-26/health-care-debate-shows-deeper-political-sickness.html

Need more evidence?

1.  Here is a whole website dedicated to a fair mix of views from both sides of the political spectrum.  It is a great site, but each item demonstrates exactly what Clive Crook was saying, above.  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa

2.  David Brooks tried to go at this subject too, a few days ago.  Notice the partisan flak he catches, from both sides:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/opinion/the-great-divide-between-the-political-parties.html