The decision by the Supreme Court on ObamaCare is an opportunity for both the right and left to find out how to think like the other side. It may sound stupid. The value in such an excercise is to look for a way to share political power rather than gain a monopoly in political power.
This right/left split is getting very boring and predictable. While no one may have expected Justice Roberts to have been the swing vote, it is possible that he felt it was in the best interest of the court and the nation that such a split decision break on his opinion rather than one of the associate justices.
Justice Roberts decision suggests to this slightly educated but observant student of politics that he sought a middle ground as much as anything.
The hypocrisy that comes from this desire for monopolistic political power is blinding the body politic. In listening to the rants about "deception" by the administration on the issue of a tax versus a mandate, made those on the left think about deception by another administration on the issue of war.
The cry for war by the right is once again growing. This will leave the left in the position of needing to use the same tactics as the right so as to maintain a balance or worse yet pursue a political power at all cost, thus continuing the cycle.
We need a political and economic middle class to absorb or blunt the shots given/taken by both sides of the political spectrum.
The kind of social order that both sides enjoy in the same period of history does not grow in the grinding heat. It can only blossom in a Spring/Fall like kind of political temps.
The body politic enjoy's it's tech - perhaps tools can be built to create an ointment to easy the chaffing.
