Conflict resolution is a significant skill for whatever who manages a large estimate of people. Regardless of how well employees typically get along, if you have a large enough group of citizen working together for a long enough period of time, conflicts will erupt. Sources of conflict can occur due to whatever from minor annoyances to personal grudge. There are also the three taboo subjects that can lead to infighting - politics, sex, and religion. Most companies have a course (official or unofficial) that these issues should not be discussed in the workplace to avoid potential disagreements. However, what happens when politics is the job?
When a subject is thought about such a hot-button issue that most citizen cannot discuss it at work, how can we expect our nation's leaders to tackle issues when they are, in fact, politicians? How can Republicans and Democrats in Washington be thinkable, to work together for the coarse good when the very issues that they discuss are deemed too evaporative for quarterly seminar amongst their voters? Will Washington ever be able to agree on whatever other than rooting for the Washington Redskins on fall Sundays?
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The honest write back to each of these questions is that they often cannot. Party line voting is more coarse now than ever before. Many representatives are more interested in getting pork for their constituents than doing what is best for the nation as a whole. Too many political Leaders are enduringly blaming the other side for things not getting done, which added prevents whatever real from getting accomplished. Political life is more about appeasing the motivated minority (angry extremes) than it is doing what is best for the majority. How many careers can you think of that have seen a man nearly beaten to death with a cane in the workplace (as Preston Brooks did to Charles Sumner in Congress 1856)?
It is not like the citizenry is innocent in this either. Talk radio and television news is enduringly becoming more divisive. Why? Because ratings are based on who can be the loudest and furthest to a political extreme. "Balanced" reporting means combining two extreme viewpoints from opposite ends of the spectrum. Moderate viewpoints are rarely represented by any national media - primarily because they do not receive any attention from a populace that is more focused on volume and controversy than that which is practical and reasonable.
Washington needs a hard episode on conflict resolution. Plainly avoiding political issues does not work in a workplace where the goal is to resolve...political issues. This country needs to get back to the basics - which means working together to solve the major issues. Jamestown colony would not have been the first permanent (European) village in the New World if the founders had decided that quarrels over immigration and tax cuts for the wealthy were more prominent than making sure that each man had entrance to the basic necessities. Now, more than ever, the United States government needs real leaders to bring the country together and help the citizenry see the forest straight through the trees (even if we are dealing with big trees). Unfortunately, seeing at the list of ready candidates from either party, I see no one who fits this description...
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