The Art of Politics #237 By Hank Silverberg When I sat in a Political Science 101 class in college almost 50 years ago, the professor would remind us over and over again that practicing good politics included the art of compromise. It's a basic theory that taking one step forward is better than stagnation or one step backwards. Or as the Rolling Stones put it in song, " You can't always get what you want." The national polarization we have been reading and hearing about for the last several years gave us all the nauseous feeling of stagnation or retreat. Many of us thought we would never get anything done because of the entrenched positions of the wingnuts on both the left and the right. This past week though, gives us hope that is changing. President Biden, for all his faults, can claim success in negotiating some ...