Buddha, Confucius, and Politics Today

It’s time to get over “I’m right and you are wrong”

Confucius presenting the young Gautama Buddha to Laozi. Photo from Wikimedia

For too long, we imagine that politics is about compromises. The left and the right want opposite things. So politics and good governance is about splitting the difference and meeting each other in the middle. Politics is but bazaar haggling writ large.