The talking heads on Sunday morning returned, time and time again, to the articulated desire of the electorate that those in government “do their jobs” and “just get things done.”
If that’s true, then the electorate has to grow up to make it possible.
We’re the key to a Washington that works.
It’s time we as voters acknowledge that compromise is how things work. Our Constitution sets it up that way. Our diversity of views and values makes finding the middle ground essential.
Principled compromise is not a sell-out. It must not be a sin for which the penalty is political exile.
In what other part of our day-to-day lives do we get everything we want?
Why, then, are we ready to excoriate leaders who settle for less than we’d like in order to get some part of what we want?
Leadership embodies the judgment to find the tolerable compromises to move us forward.
Let’s applaud the compromisers. We’ve long been told that “blessed are the peacemakers”.