Gridlock is a philosophical and emotional reaction to internal demographic, economic and social changes of unprecedented magnitude and scope. Simply stated, it is the quintessential conflict between the irresistible force -change- and the immovable object -status quo. While gridlock is not the cause of the aforementioned problems, it does deprive the government of the support it needs to address them. Ominously, history is replete with nations and empires that succumbed to procrastination and political necrosis.