But only after how much damage has been done?As Edward Pikman has pointed out in another post, the politicization of these issues is driving the country towards a compromise less satisfactory than either of the extremes. They say that a camel is a horse designed by a committee; a camel with three wheels and a hump instead of a brain is a horse designed by a parochial politicized process that cares more about petty "wins" than achieving a sensible result.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
