Gridlock in Washington D.C. may begin at home on Washington Street

We have met the enemy and they are us.

I’m not sure who said that, or even if it’s an actual quote. But when it comes to why there is such a huge inability to form a governing consensus among lawmakers in our nation’s Capitol, we might want to look no closer than the image in the bathroom mirror.

According to a Pew Research Center for the People & the Press report released June 12, the number of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled in the last 20 years from 10 percent to 21 percent. The nationwide survey of 10,013 adults conducted Jan. 23...