Barack Obama: “Let me be more specific: One faction of one party in one House of Congress in one branch of Government shut down major…”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…