I've served on more than half a dozen broad right-left task forces to find common ground on various issues from theological to social.  These well intentioned efforts sincerely tried to find areas of agreement among people with vastly different worldviews.  In every experience I've had, the process is generally dominated by the left, with at most a few token right participants.  In most task forces, the representatives from the left are policy experts, while the right is mostly big names with little policy experience and naïve as to the rhetorical nuances and maneuvers leftists employ to obfuscate and conceal their intent and objectives in policy debates. Every task force in my experience disintegrated into the left pressuring the right to cave on principle in order to reach "consensus."  Then there was inevitable "outrage" that the right was unwilling to "compromise."  You might, rightly, wonder why only the right...(Read Full Article)