The piece above has caught the fancy of my readers. So what is the ethical morass we are in? I contend that in a democracy the unwillingness to negotiate and compromise is the moral equivalent of what we call sin or hubris. This would seem to favor Obama who holds a similar position. But in fact it favors centrism. It is in fact the system we have but which our leaders seem unwilling to use. Charles Sanders Peirce is accessible to us with respect to his notion of how to think. You can read something of that at the link below. I think you can already sense that our sites should be trained on ourselves to the extent that we fail to observe the values of democracy, non-idolatry, helpfulness and tolerance. Insofar as we have better angels of our nature, it is to these negotiational values that we cleave.
