George Washington once said, “[political parties] are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Washington, as our first president and general in the Revolutionary War, knew the importance of Americans and our representatives working together to create a better country than the one we lived under before the Revolutionary War.

But that isn’t the case today. We do have a multi-party system, with Republicans and Democrats in a struggle for power.

After this past election, Republicans are officially the majority party in both the House of Representatives and Senate. All Republican teenagers are shoving it in the Democrat teenagers’ faces and it’s very…childish. It was a huge win for Republicans and a huge loss for Democrats.

But is it going to change anything?

There will still be gridlock. It is only a small majority in both the House and Senate. And while I admit I’m sour that conservatives are in charge, I honestly don’t think it’ll matter in the long run.

Either way, Capitol Hill doesn’t get anything done and Republicans will be yelling at Democrats and Democrats will be yelling at Republicans. Nothing new.

And I don’t want to take anyone’s right to opinion, free speech or equal representation but I don’t think this two-party system is working out.

At every turn, Republicans and Democrats disagree to the core. Abortion, gay marriage, taxes, you name it. Democrats say yes, Republicans say no and vice versa. It’s like two ends of magnet with Democrats and Republicans.

Or at least that’s how it seems.

There are continuously conversations around my lunch table about President Obama that and the Senate this, and no one can really find middle ground and it usually ends up in a “your mom” joke or someone saying, “your face is stupid.”

These rebuttals are not the sign of intellectual or mature discussions. The discussion is gridlocked, the table is quiet, half on one side and the other half opposing them. It looks a lot like Capitol Hill when you think about the filibusters and gridlocks that seem to be consistent in the House of Representatives.

This gridlock does nothing and our representatives are like teenagers arguing back and forth. But it shouldn’t work that way.

We should be able to agree on one thing: making this country the best it can be. The ways how to, is the hard part.

But I think we can do it.