Quit Bickering

Compromise: a settlement of differences by mutual adjustment or modification of opposing claims, principles, demands, etc.

That’s what Webster’s says about compromise. Here’s what I say: Once the compromise has been reached, the goal should be to support the compromise and to work together to create success from that compromise. To do anything less is childish and petty and self-serving to the extreme.

Nobody is happy about the economy. Nobody likes everything about the debt ceiling deal that was reached in recent days. The only way one person or group or party gets all of what it wants is in a dictatorship. We the people have not granted 100 percent control to any one person or party. So we compromise. Sometimes the people who do the compromising even do so in the spirit of finding the best solution from among a smorgasbord of conflicting ideas.

Here’s what needs to come after the compromise: unity in the service of success.

Not continued bickering or bellyaching. Not fingerpointing or namecalling, which belong on the playground. And not, even in this era when news coverage has been replaced by yammerers, ceaseless rehash.

Unity and hard work to make it work.

I can’t make that happen in Washington or at Fox or at CNN or in the vitriolic comments added to blogs all over the internet. All I can do is support the spirit of compromise by refusing to be part of the attack mentality that has replaced rational discussion. I’d like the work of our political leaders to be successful in restoring our economy and our good name around the globe, even if I don’t agree 100% with how they get there? Wouldn’t you?

A compromise has been reached. It’s time to set aside differences and pull the plow together.

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