Mickey Edwards served Oklahoma and America for 16 years in the United States Congress and currently directs the Rodel Fellowships at the Aspen Institute. He is the author of a new book, “The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans.” NCoC’s Kristen Cambell chatted with him recently about the state of politics in our country—how we got into what he believes is a dysfunctional system, and what can be done to correct this moving forward.