I hope you are familiar with the NPR broadcast This I Believe.  I’ve listened to many of them over the years.  This week’s featured essay is about the middle.  I encourage you to listen to it.
Even though I,  both socially and politically,   end up probably further left than the positions currently espoused by the democratic party (based on their actions).  I do, however, believe in the power of the middle, the power of compromise and am willing to collaborate to reach acceptable solutions.  I know that my ideals are “pie in the sky” but that compromise will take us further along the path to a just and right society.

My bottom line…I believe in the essential goodness of all beings and that we can work together.

(I think this will probably be the first of many random posts on the same topic–“what I believe“)