Each will paint the other as the representative of a partisan ideology that is, each will be regrettably compelled to say, corrupt to the core, bad for the people and quite possibly un-American. The inevitable result will be a great victory not just for one or the other man but for one or the other party. It is in this unlikely context that these two men preach bipartisanship. It is at this point that the argument becomes not only silly and stupid but dangerous. Politics is governance.
Partisanship is governance.
Partisanship is good. We jump out of bed, brush our teeth, comb our hair, pluck our navel lint and saunter out into the great wide world perfectly and honestly prepared to consider each and every new proposal for societal change that presents itself to our entirely open minds. We wouldn't be able to think, much less govern, our way through a week. Life is chaos, and the first order of government is to impose order on chaos. A moral government imposes a moral order, which is to say, the order of the wishes of the majority, tempered by the needs of the collective and the rights of the minority.