Call for moderates is key to progress

Have you ever found yourself supporting a politician for one view but being aghast at others? Ever feel pressured into something because the alternative is even worse? Wouldn't it be great if political pressure was applied such that it drove Americans toward the moderate middle, the no screaming section?

Bipartisanship is the key to progress. Let's start with Congress passing bills with smiles from both sides. Nothing wrong with starting small and developing habits of cooperation. What's wrong with that? Oh yeah, it calls for compromise, a dirty word today.

Extremists won't even consider other views, even if millions think differently. From their perspective, "You are all wrong about everything, and God bless America." Is it so hard to admit being wrong on even a piece of something? I wish I was so smart to know everything.

Turning down the rhetoric a little would help. Constant inflammatory rhetoric is divisive. All events that go sideways are not the worst disaster ever to befall our nation. Maybe the Civil War wins that distinction. Can we choose our words more carefully before screaming fascists and communists and riling people up.

Let's consider corporate America's position on this. Here performance reviews, focus on how well people cooperate and compromise to get a job done. Why? Because it works. In today's politics this is considered caving in, and to the misguided, it translates into weakness.

Once we were the "United States of America," when politicians had as much in common as they had differences. I would love to vote for a person again because they are better for the job. This will take time; healing always does. Before a wound heals, it throbs. I hope our nation's current throbbing is part of a healing process.

Ronald Look

Schaumburg