Partisan right, left are only right half of the time

They are at it again. Wouldn't you know it?

The two political parties fighting like angry conjoined twins. They are at war because each feels he is right while the whole time both fail to see they are inextricably connected.

Each only sees the world from their point of view. They perceive problems differently, and they attempt to solve all the challenges with half the brains needed for the best solution.

Biology does it to us, too; we are not bound together by an error of nature, but our brains are divided in two and connected in the middle.

The hemispheres are separate in function and points of view. With some using one half and the other just the opposite, there are fights in that each knows they are right. Each feels it in their gut; each knows the course they have plotted is true.

They know it to the depth of their souls. They sense it down to their bones; their eyes and thoughts and emotions tell them so. The difficulty is that members of one party use the right hemisphere and the other group sees the issues from the left side, hence the conjoined battles. Hence the noise without the silence of listening.

Emotions precede thought, policies, and doctrine. How our brain functions for survival is the seedbed of philosophies.

The ultimate divide that shows itself in most political splits follows the course of action of emotions. It divides itself down the middle, splitting the two cerebral hemispheres in half. The right brain drinks up the hormone, oxytocin and the left sups on the stress molecule norepinephrine.

Conflicts flow from problems. A problem is anything that creates an internal stress response. If there is not a release of stress hormones, there is no problem.

Therefore to solve the stress, our bodies turn to two opposing means of survival. We either use the left half of the brain to promote self-survival or the right to ensure survival of the species. At the core these two survival techniques are always in conflict.

Do I run or do I stay? Do I race from the grenade or do I fall on it to protect my platoon buddies?

Sometimes that decision is so difficult it can't be answered emotionally, so we freeze. It is Sophie's Choice. Do I give up my son or my daughter to the concentration camps of the Nazis and certain death?

Take the example of health care.