The fatman on politics, ouch!

I am staying a bit today into the realm of politics. Follow my exploration of a need for political health of finding good ideas from those we disagree with, our need to be flexible and work to the common good. I think it is safe to say our partisan politics needs to be challenged.

We need to take time between the elections to examine our political health. We need a time of political creativity to move the American experience forward and with practicality work together. 

Right now we are living in a time where are political health is becoming so narrow that we cannot see common ground to work for the American people. In our partisan politics we have become so harden we are no longer flexible. Our ideas are becoming restrictive.

I would like to develop a metaphor of political health like into cardiovascular health. Our views have become like plaque on the artery walls. Over the years we have repetitively put on the same old patches of ideas on the walls of our political ideology that it looks more like graffiti and globs of cement that is built-up so that we have less space to live in the freedom of options in life. Instead the crude builds up to some kind of mindless conformity of less choice and opportunity.

This political hardness is moving increasingly to a political heart attack. We are losing sight of our political health and we are showing signs of political heart attacks and strokes.

It is time that we go to political doctor? We need to be put on a diet and exercise program. Our goal should be to serve the American people to improve the American experience. Our quest for political power is likely (A type personality who is unaware the drive is pushing toward a widow maker. This power quest leads to early death and upheaval in a political world with no insight at all. (Very deadly to the common person)

To develop more flexible arteries we need some omega-3 and good cholesterol to help patch our walls of life. We have been trying to patch this mess with partisan ideas and only serve the people of power. My diagnosis is that both parties have done this. 

Right now we maybe so hard we are not listening at all. Or we are in critical condition because we'll listen to argue. If we did this during the Great Depression or World War Two we would have fallen. Instead we showed tremendous flexibility as we shifted from social to capitalistic answers to meet our challenges.

What diet do we need right now? We need a good diet of ideas and possibilities. They are out there. They may take a little more time to cook and acquire a taste for, but we can change to good ideas. What is the exercise that we need to do now? We need to work for the common good. We need to put people over ideas. Political ambition (political type A personality) isn't the goal that we should be shooting for. 

One exercise every political person should do is to find five good ideas from there opposing party line. Politics cannot always be partisan, one of the criticisms has been the stagnation due to partisan politics. We have to develop stronger areas to work together. The possibility that there are hundreds of ideas that politicians can work together on should lead to a greater political health. The politicians can look back at the good things they did together and have a real legacy that everybody can see. Each politician should be able to come up with five ideas worth bringing up for the public debate for the American people to decide about. Could it be possible there are ideas of difference that in the debate some ideas move forward. 

The skill of the politician who is healthy is able to compromise for the common good people. The skill of the politician is to listen particularly to the opposite point of view, and find away to serve all the people. 

I am not naïve. We live in the most partisan times in the American experience. We have a political hardness of the heart where we have just about become two countries. Our political arteries are almost plugged. We are trying to ram into these rigid spaces agendas that give know room for one another. All parties are guilty of this, so we don't need to point fingers. 

But we really needed time of listening, exchanging good ideas, working together to continue a better fight.