Gridlock is good, at the national level.  More political and economic decisions should be made at the state and local levels.  The Bible calls for even more decisions at the family and church levels. 
 
A friend asked recently about the “horrible” in-fighting that was necessary to elect Kevin McCarthy speaker of the house.  I responded, “Gridlock is good.”  As the process played out, every day, Congressman McCarthy gave up more power, to gain the election.  This is what the founders had in mind. They did not want a powerful speaker, like Nancy Pelosi.  Power is an economic good: The more of it that is concentrated in the hands of the speaker the less gets distributed throughout the house of Representatives.  So, we have a weak speaker of the House.  That’s good for governance AND for economics.   
One of the best books on this topic is misnamed, but it makes this point very well.  It’s titled Cowards, and it was written by Glenn Beck.  He makes the point that elected government officials are cowards for not standing up to excessive spending that produces national debt.  
 
The Christian Worldview
Michael Horowitz is an agnostic Jew who explains the Christian Worldview very effectively in his book Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America.  He explains how the founding fathers understood the fallen nature of humans and thus designed a three-part competitive system with checks and balances.  Think about it: If you thought people were NOT fallen, you would give them unlimited power.  But they ARE fallen, so we don’t give them power.  Or, we shouldn’t.
The Christian worldview has three elements: Creation, fall, redemption.  Economics is the study of the production and distribution of goods and services in a scarce environment.  In the garden, we believe Adam and Eve had work to do, but there was abundance, not scarcity.  Scarcity starts with the fall.  That’s where economics starts.  Without the fall, there is no economics.  The third element in the Christian Worldview is redemption.  In economics, we believe God calls us to redeem resources to their creational intent, to serve our neighbors. 
In our current day, it’s very obvious that our economic system is out of whack and headed for a debt cliff.  Why?  The government has denied the fallen nature.  I’m writing a podcast on the subject of how the Democrat party denies the fallen nature, which will unpack more on that subject, but I will concentrate only on spending today.  Fiscal policy includes two elements: Taxing and spending.  The experience of the Democrats controlling Congress, the Senate, and the Presidency over the last two years, has shown us what happens there is agreement and a LACK of gridlock.  I unpack more details in podcast #146 titled Power Corrupts.
OK, I have presented the Christian worldview, because I’m the Christian economist.  But the Jewish worldview also encourages free debate.  The word Israel, means “To struggle with God,” and disagreement is at the core of Jewish culture.
 
National Debt Limits Freedom
The obnoxious spending of the Biden administration, when the Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature and the Presidency, should be ample evidence of why the founders designed a system of checks and balances.