Cracking Gridlock

Social gridlock is a frustrating thing to watch, especially when people are short-sighted enough to believe that such issues are permanent.  Some things are generational: when based on beliefs or habits or perceptions or traditions stretching back into the past, it isn’t surprising that not much change can happen in a single generation, let alone voting cycle. But…if you don’t have historical perspective, that’s how it can look.

 

The worst are the ones where the surface conversations aren’t...