With the tea party’s growing influence in the Republican ranks it looks like they want to uncompromisingly drag our country further to the right. To justify this they claim that they are strict constitutionalists, yet they do not seem to understand that document and how it set the course for this co
untry to grow so great.
The Constitution was the result of a committee that made compromises at every turn to accommodate the differences in opinion of the parties involved. Our founders understood that no one person or group had a monopoly on ideas and as a result the Constitution is an elegant expression of those compromises.
In today’s right-wing world they do not accept that this country was founded on compromise. If a party wins an election they do not have a mandate to ignore others that have legitimate disagreements with their views. Loyal Americans come in many varieties of color and temperament.
It is very interesting to listen to the folks on the right claim that they are in Washington to do the “will of the people.” This is clearly a lie or they would not have blocked the Democrats when they had control of both houses and the presidency. Clearly the “will of the people” was leaning to the left then, yet those on the right refused to recognize that majority. The right blatantly ignored the “will of the people.”
As a left-leaning person I was disappointed that during the time the Dems completely controlled government they did not get more left leaning proposals through — but the truth about this is that the Democrats understand they must compromise to run the government, and not blindly bulldoze their ideology through.
This country would be a lot better off if there were fewer ideologues and more compromisers in Congress.
Stephen L. McGourty
Arlington
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