The bipartisan summit on health care has already been dubbed a failure by party spinsters on both sides. But Americans are hungry for the integrative approach it symbolizes.
So am I. I resolve conflicts between political adversaries for a living. And I spend much of my blogging time attempting to crash conversations among true-believers on the right and left – the ones that demonize their favorite enemies as the source of all wrongdoing.
Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or Tea-totaler, it’s time for you to stop hanging out with mirrors, and crash those other parties too. To solve today’s challenges, we need strange political bedfellows, partisans willing to jump into the sack with one another, and bring their ideological codes together. That’s the only way to conceive smart and integrative solutions to the challenges we face.
