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FIRST RESPONSE NEED 100 WORD REPLY……

This arrangement hasimpacted the policy making process because some people in the UnitedStates have their favorable party and they do not want the opposingparty to take more control. Many want their party to take more controland hope that it passes laws that they want. For example, when PresidentObama was president, he passed the Affordable Care Act which was whatthe Democrats supported but not the Republicans in the House ofRepresentatives. This is a divided government because not all peoplewant the same thing. Divided government gives more centrist ideas and itis known that the public like having a divided government because theyknow that at least one of their party has some control of thegovernment. This has affected the policy making process many times inthe past years. Divided government has been advantageous to the policymaking process because it gives both parties to share power whichcreates a motive to agree. This makes them having to meet in the middlewhich can help the policy to be in the middle and find a reasonablesolution. It helps produce a sustainable bipartisanship between bothparties and come together instead of bumping heads with one another.Without a divided government or having both parties have their share indeciding about laws, we would have one party deciding everything intheir favor only. The divided government stops this from happening, andallows more fairness. Although it is advantageous in this way, it takeslonger for bills to be passed. Bills take longer to be passed becauseDemocrats and Republicans must reach some sort of compromise in order tomake laws, and both parties already have a hard time coming to acompromise over politics, so this is a lengthy process. So yes, dividedgovernment can have its advantages, but of course there aredisadvantages as well.

2ND RESPONSE NEED 100 WORD REPLY

I definitely do feel that the way ourgovernment is divided into parties, does for sure make a huge impact in thewhole process of policy making. One advantage is the fact that we are able toin a way see a different point of view, and hear different opinions from theother parties around us. And at times it does help, because when the governmentdoes come together and work as a team, it could potentially help them createand come up with better ideas, that which hopefully all result in betterdecisions being made that could help us, the citizens.

But one disadvantage, is the fact that certain parties are just thetotal complete opposite of each other, especially the party of the Republicans,and the party of the Democrats. And I know that everybody is free to believe inwhat they want, and everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but sometimesit does go a bit too far. These two huge parties seem to not agree with justabout almost every single little thing. For example, the whole subject ofundocumented immigrants. One party wants to completely get them all out of ourcountry, because they believe this and that, and that building a wall will get“all crime reduced”. But another party thinks the total complete oppositebecause of so and such, and feel that building a wall will not solve anything andis just a big waste of money. Each party has their very own strong opinionabout one thing, and so does the other. And it makes the whole policy makingprocess a whole lot more complicated, and at times it does make making certaindecisions take a whole lot longer than it should be. And it all starts toaffect some of us, the citizens, in one way or another.