Our Society Compared To Marriage

I was just thinking about how our government is acting or reacting to the people pushing back on a lot of the bills and such that are being introduced lately. I have come to the realization that the government vs. the people, as is going on right now strongly resemble the husband vs. the wife in a marital tiff.

Imagine this scenario; One spouse, at the end of the day throws off their cloths and tosses them into a pile on the floor. Not even attempting to make it into the hamper. The next morning the other, thinking nothing of it, just picks them up and puts them into the hamper. The next day, the same thing. Years go by and this is really starting to wear on the one picking up after the other. Since the cleaner never mentions this (out loud) to the tosser, it just continues to slide by as accetable. Finally, the cleaner has had enough and says "hey, you have to stop throwing your cloths on the ground!". Caught off guard and now a little peeved by the scolding, the tosser ignores the cleaner. This continues until an all out argument ensues. Now even more upset at the cleaner for changing the rules out of the blue, the tosser now decides to not only throw their cloths on the ground but now spread them around the room, just because. More head to head battles break out and other issues begin to pop up. One leaves dirty dishes laying around, one leaves the seat up, now someone drank the last of the milk and the other didn't replace the toilet paper roll. And now...divorce. It didn't have to come to that. What started out as a minor problem that could have been prevented by communication at the beginning escalated to the point of no return. This issue is not one or the others fault, but the fault of both sides. If the cleaner had said something sooner instead of letting it go until there was a blow up, they could have made it work. Then again had the tosser realized that all it would take is a little effort on their part to understand what the cleaner was asking for, they could have made it work.

Now if you go back and insert "the government" in place of "the tosser" and "the people" in place of "the cleaner"; change the cloths, toilet seat, and dishes for health care reform, climate change, and immigration, you have a marriage of a larger scale...on the verge of divorce!

This has gone on for to many years. The people sitting by silent while the government runs the show. Now that the people are speaking up, the government is getting pissed off and throwing their cloths around the room. One of two things is about to happen. either the government is going to start listening to the people and start working things out...or we are getting a divorce!