by Darren Robertson

Created on: July 25, 2010   Last Updated: July 26, 2010

The U.S. and Canada suffer from a similar political disease.  It is the disease of getting nothing done.

Sitting North of the U.S. border has been entertaining for the last couple of years.  We look at the U.S. and see a country divided.  The liberal press has the mass population believing the left, socialist view of politics is dominant in the country, when in fact conservative movement is still rampant. 

The U.S. is faced with so many challenges – war on terror, BP disaster in the Gulf, illegal immigration, North Korea, Iran, jobless rates rising, etc. – they are almost paralyzed from responding.

Here is what is being missed.  All of these challenges, they aren’t Liberal challenges and they aren’t Conservative challenges.  These are challenges that test the strength and grit of humanity.  We try to categorize these challenges as left and right politics, but they are challenges we all must face up to. 

I would be shocked at this time if one could find a fisherman who made a living from fishing waters in the Gulf of Mexico discriminate against whichever political party showed up to help get back in the waters following this current oil disaster.  The fisherman who is waiting for help isn’t worried about whether a Democrat or a Republican is going to show up and help, the fisherman just needs someone to show up who can right this mess and get everyone back to work.

I don’t think many in the U.S. understand this at this point.  Too much pride to admit they need to put differences aside and tackle the issues.

Then I woke up one day and realized the same applied to the Canadian political system which I am subjected to.  All the bickering, all the finger pointing, and the name calling, it all leads us down a dirty road.  A dirty road that is not paved because we spend too much time fighting about which political party is going to get to stamp their logo once the paving is done.

Here are two diverse countries that are led by political systems that do not allow them to get the work done that is needed to be done. 

When a political system is behaving this way, it opens the door for the witch hunts to begin.  Especially in the U.S., the politicians are so eager to tear each other down they can hardly remember what for at the end of the day.

Canada has been hanging politicians all over the place for “alleged” misconduct.  Helena Guergis is a

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