Starbuck’s CEO and potential third-party candidate Howard Schultz wants us to “talk honestly about our problems” and to “debate them with civility, respect, and optimism.”
In a New York Times opinion column this weekend, AEI President Arthur Brooks writes, “What we need is not to disagree less, but to disagree better.”
One of the easiest applause lines in politics is to attack Washington, DC and its dysfunction. If you are looking for an “amen” from those in the chattering class, make sure to write an op-ed where you make the case for “finding common sense solutions to our common problems.”
But, the political challenge we face today isn’t that we simply need to be more measured in our disagreements, it’s that we disagree about the challenges and problems facing the country. It’s impossible to ‘talk honestly about our problems’ if we don’t agree on the same set of problems.
It hasn’t always been this way. CONT.
Amy Walter, Cook Political Report