What Alabama needs now is ... what he said (Archibald/al.com) {not just about AL}

[eppur_se_muova]

By John Archibald | [e-mail]
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on January 10, 2018 at 6:35 AM, updated January 10, 2018 at 6:36 AM

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He called to ask if I'd ever read "Bendigo Shafter," a 38-year-old novel by Louis L'Amour, the king of the western.
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But Clem's point wasn't the plot. Clem's point was right there on page 150-something. It was, he vowed, something the world needs to hear at a time like now. He didn't have the book in front of him. He recited it by memory.
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"There can be no living together without understanding, and understanding means compromise. Compromise is not a dirty word, it is the cornerstone of civilization, just as politics is the art of making civilization work. Men do not and cannot and hopefully will never think alike, hence each must yield a little in order to avoid war, to avoid bickering. Men and women meet together and adjust their differences, this is compromise. He who stands unyielding and immovable upon a principle is often a fool, and often bigoted, and usually left standing alone with his principle while other men adjust their differences and go on."
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nice story: http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/01/what_alabama_needs_now_is_what.html

[murielm99]

1. When I was a kid,

I was taught that politics is the art of compromise.

I was taught that when people compromise, no one goes home happy. Everyone should go home satisfied that they got some of what they wanted.