Political cartoon post election: exactly mimicking my thoughts

When browsing time earlier today, something in the political cartoons really caught my attention. Why is that? It is because the cartoon resonated exactly with my concern for the future of this country. Here is the cartoon in its full glory:

Source: http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/08/cartoons-of-the-week-november-2-9/?iid=op-article-cartoonweek

Our country is attempting to escape the economic depths which are at its deepest since the great depression. Yet, our congress has the lowest approval rating ever. This is caused by strong political divide between the GOP and Democrats. America has taken on an unfortunate mentality of "my team is better than yours." and this represents the failures and shortcomings of the American two-party system in this day and age. Politicians simply can not be bipartisan anymore. In Mitt Romney's concession speech he urged politicians to "work across the aisle", if Romney had run off that platform from the beginning he would have had mine and many other moderate's vote. But, the extreme right conservative base has restricted the GOP candidate's mobility. For the successful future of the GOP and America in general, a transition must be made, where compromises are made. Compromises built this country, and it is time to return back to thinking in the general well-being of this nation. This cartoon represents that great divide confronting our country. On the left is Obama and the democrats celebrating their win, which is appropriate. But, on the left the GOP is celebrating a loss. This right off the bat, creates a strong sense of irony. Wouldn't you want to reevaluate your party values if the election was unsuccessful, so the party could win in the future? Instead, the group is adding "gridlock" into the mix. Which implies the notion that the GOP-controlled house will block all forthcoming legislation to put the president in a negative light. Put simply; this is ridiculous. This cartoon incites anger within me, forming a strong sense of pathos without any real strong words. It incites fear, fear of a tomorrow marred with a lack of progress and improvement. The author's intended purpose was to show the division present, this then creates an assumption that our country will not move "forward" as was the campaign slogan for Obama, and will rather be stuck like a traffic jam. This cartoon was taken from the International Herald Tribune which is the global version of the New York Times, a very popular source for US politics news. This cartoon brings out the greatest disappointment currently present in the dirty game of politics, I can only hope that in my future my peers and I can rid this gridlock and bring unity to a great nation in need of an economic recovery.