Things that are rigid break under duress.  One of the arts of life is found in the flexibility of the organic.  Yes, a tree seems rigid at the trunk, but upon closer inspection the life of that tree is more closely related to the art of the flex found in its limber limbs and trunk and expressed in duress.  Only after death or in a catastrophic storm event does the living tree actually snap and fall to decomposition. 

Both sides of this near exact split of American culture are becoming so rigid in their continuous opposition that their mutual stranglehold on progress is becoming a painful, rigid spasm. On the verge of snapping we need to find a third way. This is not a call for a third party, for that is suicide for the party under stress because the party that lost a portion of its power to a third party passes victory over to the minority party that held. A third way would have to be a more comprehensive and radical different approach that could pull a majority to today’s issues. 

The Good Decision promotes a different discipline to making a decision. The difference is that every decision of consequence begins inside a person’s sense of good and the sense of good is the true center of individual conscience. Every vote you caste or don’t caste is a decision of consequence in a democracy. The mission of this project is to recommit ourselves to voting our conscience at the individual level of radical concern for all human beings, not just ourselves, our blood families or our parochial community, but for all humans of every stripe. That is so much harder. To do so we need to disengage in this finger puzzle war that is paralyzing our communities and nation. As with the finger puzzle we must come closer and together to take off the ever more rigid, splintering tension in order to achieve a peace. The dividers may be in power now, but we can flex and do the unexpected. It appears the Catholic Church may have something like that in mind with the new Pope and peace is nondenominational. Good is bending as a healthy tree to the tension around us to find the next dance of peace and mutuality.