It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realise that America is hopelessly polarized right now. America is stuck in a bad marriage between Democrats and Republicans and they are putting the children (i.e. us) in the middle. As a result each side is so dug in that they are waging a gang style war using rhetoric and division as their weapon of choice.

While their tactics are great for votes and ratings, the collateral damage to the country is painfully clear. How many families and friendships have been torn apart because of politics the past 6 years? How many people do you know have talked about how stressed, angry, & anxious they are about our current political climate?

If that wasn’t bad enough, just this week we had two incidents where we had a US Coast Guard Officer planing a terrorist attack on liberal media personalities and politicians and we also had a college student beaten up at UC Berkley because they were recruiting for their college conservative group.

Things are not good and something bad is going to happen unless we take action now. So what exactly do we do about it? That is why I named this episode We the People…We The Problem…We The Solution. We can’t be naieve and think we can just join hands and sing out way out of this. The thing that we have to realize is that we are all being taken advantage of by the political parties and allowing ourselves to be turned on each other. They are not going to change because what they are doing is working and they don’t seem to really see or care about the collateral damage that it is causing.

So that means it is on us to change the narrative in this country and to take control of the situation. On this episode of Gray Matters we discuss where we are at as country and while we didn’t create the problem it is our responsibility to clean up the mess. The solutions is so close but yet so far away…but there is a solution in here. Michael & Bill think they laid out the road map that we all need to follow, the only thing you have to do is listen in and become part of the solution. Or write in to us to say why we are wrong and what we need to do instead but that is okay too.

Joining me in the studio as always is the ArmchairQb Billy Reed. You can listen to Gray Matters Radio exclusively on The Reporters Network airing every Monday.