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Americans should focus on finding common ground
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Published: September 10, 2009
I often despair of finding any rational thought in many of the letters you receive and choose to print.
Too often many of them are only some rant by an individual who adheres tenaciously to one end or the other of the ideological spectrum, yet sees no reason to try to identify some middle ground on which they may find some small agreement with the opposing view.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current topics on everyone's minds, be they health care, schools, presidential speeches, the economy or a plethora of "causes."
We are a national and world of diversity. This is not all bad, yet we use our differences more as a means of dividing us than of uniting us. We will never agree on all topics, nor should we, but we can and should seek a common ground on which we can work for the benefit of all. And until we do, we will continue to be like two mules pulling against one another.
Rather than waste our energies trying to drag someone to our side of the divide, we should instead be pulling together toward that common ground where all may profit. But of that time and end I also despair.
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