I'm Irish. Our politics is usually boring, so we watch the east and west (UK & US) versions.
From an outside perspective, it sounds like the destructive stalemates currently causing havoc in parliament & Congress are quite similar.
Everything is political machinations. The issues at hand (brexits & border walls) are popular/opinionated with the public, but most politicians don't feel as strongly about these issues.
They are equally happy if things go well, and they get credit or they go bad, and the other side gets blamed. I know politics always has.. politics, but I don't remember it ever being so explicit.
A mental exercise I often go to is imagining a secret ballot. I suspect that the votes would be totally different, if the ballot was secret.
From an outside perspective, it sounds like the destructive stalemates currently causing havoc in parliament & Congress are quite similar.
Everything is political machinations. The issues at hand (brexits & border walls) are popular/opinionated with the public, but most politicians don't feel as strongly about these issues.
They are equally happy if things go well, and they get credit or they go bad, and the other side gets blamed. I know politics always has.. politics, but I don't remember it ever being so explicit.
A mental exercise I often go to is imagining a secret ballot. I suspect that the votes would be totally different, if the ballot was secret.