FG/FF coalition proposal - A suggestion that makes perfect sense

As nearly any self-help book worth 10 minutes on prime time radio will assert, changing yourself is the greatest challenge of all.

As any historian worth 20 minutes at even an unfashionable summer school will tell you, societies that do not keep up as the world changes around them will fail, the only issue is how long it might take. As any politician interested in advancing society rather than career or party will concede, absolute positions can hardly ever be sustained on a permanent basis. Compromise is the lubricant of achievement.

Yet we, in our political life, in the management and application of our democracy, endorse positions that are almost unchanging, nearly absolute and deeply resistant to a changed and still changing world.