By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo
The root of the evil in America is the loss of civility, common sense, and the ability to compromise.
I can’t think of a single thing in my life that is black or white. Everything is gray— which is a combination of black and white, which means compromise.
As Americans, we have to stop treating the issues that effect our very existence as if we’re rooting for our favorite sports team, and that rooting for our team means the same thing as rooting against the other team. In real life, when one side loses we all lose.
The only way this will get fixed is with everyone in the room agreeing to ideologically impure but **common freaking sense** ideas, and accept that it’ll cost votes on the fringes… but in the end is the truly American thing and the only way we all find a safer way forward.
We need politicians with a long view that can think about their grandkids and how they’ll be treated in history books rather than the next polling result or viral tweet.
I wish I was more optimistic about whether those folks will step up… and whether they’d even make it a step before We The People stomped them out of existence.
