Dysfunctional politics and marriage

The well-known metaphor of calling the Democrats the "mommy party" and the Republicans the "daddy party" doesn't go far enough into the deeper image of marriage between the two. In this age of single parents and feminist philosophy marriage often doesn't even enter the picture. 

 The differences between men and women and the importance of marriage has been undermined---one without the other creates dysfunctional marriages and dysfunctional children and dysfunctional governments. This does not suggest that women can't do what men do, or vice versa, but it does suggest that our schools should have basic sociobiological courses in the bio-cultural differences between men and women and how this to relates to political policy and life in general.

Republicans tend to discount or downplay the feminine traits of nurturing and unconditional love, in relation to social and domesticate policy, and the Democrats down play the masculine traits of protection and acquisition, in relation to economics and foreign policy. The present “fiscal cliff” disagreements are one example of the dysfunction.