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This is America dissected. I'm your host Dr. Abdul Alsayo.

To say that American politics is broken is almost quaint at this point.

Our government seems at risk of shutting down every budget cycle.

And instead of getting down to the work of legislating, our legislators are usually more interested in using whatever news of the day

as grist to drive a cultural war. The gridlock that causes is usually what people mean when they say that

government is, quote, broken. But there's a broader issue at the heart of our

broken politics that I think gets missed because it's hard to pinpoint. And it's less

about what is said than what is not said. See, our politicians have, by and large, ceased to be big thinkers.

Most of them spend their careers tinkering on the margins,

trying to find marginal wins at the edge of outdated ideas to address yesterday's problems.

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