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Practical Solutions to America's Problems
“Takes Two to Make a Fight”
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock One day long ago when we were little children, my sister and I had a disagreement in the...
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Aug 2, 20222 min read
Dysfunctional Congress: What to Do?
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let’s lay the groundwork for more than two parties to flourish in America – as they do in...
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Jul 19, 20221 min read
Animosity and Discord
Tom Mast – Founder of Solve American Gridlock It is only to be expected that competition will exist among people who are intelligent and...
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Jul 14, 20222 min read
Safe Seats
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Reference: The Guardian.org, Sam Levine in New York, Feb. 17, 2022 What is a safe seat? ...
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Jul 9, 20222 min read
Polarization and Root Causes
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock I recently ordered and received a book that purported to have some suggestions regarding how...
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Jul 5, 20222 min read
Animosity and Discord In Congress
It is only to be expected that competition will exist among people who are intelligent and ambitious. But, when relationships...
Tom Mast
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Multi-Member Districts
Since multi-member districts just may be something new to some folks, let’s take a very few minutes to hit the highlights! Why should, or...
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Jun 21, 20222 min read
We Must Have More Than Two Parties
Tom Mast Ms. Danielle Allen, a candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2020, had an Op-Ed in the WSJ on May 7 in which she said “We...
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Jun 16, 20221 min read
Dysfunctional Congress
Solve American Gridlock Tom Mast – Founder Our Dysfunctional Congress is one of the two topics Solve American Gridlock is addressing, and...
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Jun 11, 20221 min read
Tale of Two Parties
Political parties have existed in America almost since its inception. They are basic to the operation of a democratic government and are...
Tom Mast
Jun 6, 20222 min read
Multi-Member Districts
The United States has not always had single-member districts with their Gerrymandering and Safe Seat issues; prior to 1967, the House...
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May 30, 20222 min read
Mission and the Task Going Forward
Our raison d'etre is: to alert Americans to the dangers of some crucial problems, provide understanding of their fundamental causes,...
Tom Mast
May 25, 20222 min read
IMAGINE!
Let’s just imagine that we have – right now – a US House of Representatives populated by members from, say, four effective parties, an...
Tom Mast
May 23, 20222 min read
THE “SOLVE AMERICAN GRIDLOCK LLC” APPROACH
“…Benjamin Franklin, who, on leaving the constitutional convention of 1787, supposedly told a curious passerby that the Framers had...
Tom Mast
May 10, 20222 min read
Must We Accept Permanent Gridlock in our Congress?
Congress is not doing its job at all well, and a root cause is its division into two diametrically opposed and essentially equal-sized...
Tom Mast
May 6, 20221 min read
GRIDLOCK
Per Merriam-Webster, Gridlock is: a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give in deadlock, halt,...
Tom Mast
Apr 20, 20221 min read
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