I am not personally in The Middle politically. I am to the left of middle. I am not radically to the Left and sometimes my sense of what is best has me looking at the Right. Essentially, however, I do not think either the Left or the Right has the absolutely best answers.
The idea that some group and their position(s) may be ABSOLUTELY the best is where the trouble lies. There are multiple types of people with multiple types of problems and the resulting variety of people and problems means there are multiple ways for problems to be solved. There may in fact be an infinite variety of solutions! What is good for one person in one situation may be bad for another. One size doesn't fit all - no matter what the labels say!
SO ... in the past our political system, i.e. the Congress, had members in the House of Representative and in the Senate who themselves were of varying types (yes... race and gender differences were not seen/there nevertheless there was variety in places of origin, education, professions, interests, religion, wealth, and personalities!) and when dealing with issues of taxation and education and defense and the post office and welfare, etc, etc.. etc...!!! -- there was a willingness to consider compromise and consensus and essentially SOLUTIONS... to the issues and the questions they raised. There were people on the Left and people on the Right and somewhere in the Middle solutions were found and sometimes the solutions leaned right and sometimes left and sometimes they worked and sometimes they did not work. Trial and error and hope was understood to be the way for all to get a chance!
Something seems different today in the present.
The future comes from the past and the present. At all times, in the past and in the present and in the future The Middle way is a way most and maybe nearly all people can find something useful and important and acceptable and tolerable. Compromise and consensus solutions work for many -- and it was understood solutions might not work for everyone all the time. Frustrations built up! Something better was wanted. Some best, absolutely best solution was wanted. People wanted education and health care for all that was absolutely the best for all. Dramatic news reports of the good and the bad and the ugly were made and consumed because drama grabs our attention. Drama, however, is not found in the ORDINARY middle. The statistics showing most people getting good health care and a decent education are dry and uninteresting. Dramas - if positive and wonderful and miraculous left people who only had ok, ordinary experiences wanting more. Dramas showing bad and scary happenings made people think government and experts were not good enough.
However - good enough IS good enough.
While many people except the simple statement -- "life is not fair" I wonder if and when we can understand that the perfect and the absolute generally does not exist. It is something to strive for but not something we generally see or have and if we do achieve some perfection it is fleeting!
I and this essay is good enough I hope to cause you to consider The Middle Ways. YOU are good enough to get the point.
The point is in 2020 we need a new President who will not be perfect and who will try to do the best that can be done and who will succeed sometimes, fail other times, and serve the interests and needs of most Americans. Something in the middle for most! I don't know who that will be.
Donald Trump does not know the Middle Way as he has demonstrated an arrangance of assumed perfection in spite of facts and reality to the contrary of his "facts", etc.. People with open eyes and hearts know truth is real and not what Trump sees.
Do we really want to be lead by someone with NO humility and who only trusts himself while ignoring most (almost all) experts? Chemists and physicists and historians and journalists and poets and businessmen and astronauts and teachers and clergy and doctors and almost all knowledgeable experts with differing views then his are simply called stupid or worse. Trust IS important and trusting others is necessary unless you are God... and Trump is not God! What kind of person believes others are bad, wrong, evil.. if they differ a lot or even a little from his views? How many of us are like that and are happy and effective? Working and living and growing together with tolerance and acceptance is The Middle Way and is how people relate well over time and space.
GO MIDDLE!
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