Agree to Disagree

With the presidential election underway, this is a time where we need to learn to agree to disagree. Sure it would be nice to have everybody agree with us, but wouldn’t the world be pretty boring. Also with a bunch of yes men and women we would eventually spiral in a very dangerous direction. It takes people with different ideas to keep the checks and balances in order.

Personally, I’m liberal in some areas (social issues), but I’m more conservative fiscally. With this I tend to agree with portions of different politicians views. This usually puts me at odds with others. The majority of the people I talk to about politics are either very conservative or very liberal. Being neither myself I’ve learned to listen and bite my tongue the majority of the time. I hear people profess that the end of the world will come if candidate xyz is elected. They can never see any good from an opponent. Sure there are candidates I really don’t want, but I try to see the pluses and minuses of each candidate.

In the media we tend to hear the views of the extremes. This tends to push the rest of us out of the discussion because the extremes don’t want to listen. If we could agree to disagree I think the middle would join the discussion more often and we could get a better view of what the United States as a whole believes.