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About Seniors

Civility: Where Have You Gone?

By Mark D. Olshan
Associate Executive Vice President, B’nai B’rith International

Afew days after the 2016 election, Photo credit: National Archives White House Collection; Identifier: 75853977; Local Identifier: C27608-19
a young colleague came into my
office, closed the door and asked if We can work it out ... Then-President Ronald Reagan (left) in the Oval Office with then-
we could talk. He was experiencing a very Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill.
uneasy feeling of what we were about to
be living through as a country. He asked, categorically that they would prefer their candidates are trying to gain traction by
“How are we going to get through this? elected officials reach across the aisle to doing everything they can to weaken their
You lived through similar times in the 60s find solutions. opponents rather than uniting to change
and 70s. Will we be okay?” the status quo.
Changing the Status Quo
While I shared many of his concerns To quote New York Times columnist
on a personal level, I counseled that I felt So, what does this mean for the future? Tom Friedman: “Dear Democrats:
the system was much stronger than any Watching the Democratic presidential This is not complicated! Just nominate
one individual, and that we had learned debates, I get the feeling that the can- a decent, sane person, one committed
what it takes to make things work, even didates are their own worst enemy. The to reunifying the country and creating
through difficult times. country is more divided than it was before more GOOD jobs … And that candi-
the last election. We have made no invest- date can win!”
Okay, so I was wrong. ment in our nation’s infrastructure; the
We are now experiencing a near total Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still holding Even Tom Hayden, radical activist of
gridlock on some of the most critically up but has been significantly weakened the 1960s, learned that you must get into
important issues of our times. So, from by inaction to improve on it and periodic the political mainstream to effect any real
this person’s perspective, the system is attempts to gut it altogether. Too many change. Candidates who embrace policies
undeniably broken. that are unpopular with the majority of
In the 1980s Republican President
Ronald Reagan, the great communica-
tor, with whom I disagreed vehemently
on domestic spending and economic
policies, had a very positive personal
and working relationship with the then
Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill.
Together, they created some very popular
and important bipartisan legislation.
There wasn’t the same vitriol permeating
the air that we find in politics today. The
system worked, to a point.
Unfortunately, compromise can-
not, and will not ever happen in today’s
politically toxic climate. This, though,
is not the will of the people: In a recent
Hill-HarrisX poll, an overwhelming
majority of registered voters — 75% of
both political parties sampled — stated

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Nostalgic Mantra: Make Love…Convivial audience members at the Woodstock Festival, 1969.

the electorate don’t stand a chance of actually being elected and and endless town halls. An infrastructure bill would get rea-
having any success in changing the political system. sonable bipartisan support. I would also argue that attempts
to shore up the ACA by reintroducing the individual man-
For example, prominent presidential candidates for the date might make sense.
Democratic nomination proudly raised their hands in
favor of replacing private health insurance — now covering Additionally, I would fight to strengthen Social Secu-
roughly 150 million people — with Medicare for All. Their rity. First to go should be the cap on how much income
alternative would be a government-sponsored, and presum- goes untaxed to fund the program. Why should individu-
ably government-funded system that has not been thor- als currently making hundreds of thousands of dollars a
oughly vetted, scored or thought out. Even if, in the long year, and more, stop paying into the system after the first
term, the concept is shown to have merit, and, if eventually $133,000 of income, the current ceiling? If you think
enacted, properly funded and a better and more effective $133,000 isn’t much money, set the cap at $500,000, or
means of providing quality health care, is it the right pro- even $1 million. The issue of how to pay for Social Secu-
posal to be introduced to the electorate at this time? rity would be moot.

A Hill-HarrisX poll found that only 13% of respondents Now, I do not wish to wage a war with those whose
favored Medicare for All if it meant getting rid of private income places them in the top 1%. For the most part, I’m
insurance. Is it sensible to make a proposal supported by more than certain that you’ve earned that income legiti-
only 13% of the voting public the centerpiece of your cam- mately. But I firmly believe that you have an obligation to
paign? I don’t think so. pay your fair share in order for those less fortunate to be
able to take part in federal programs that allow them to live
Next Steps out their lives with dignity.

So, where do we go from here? Let’s think for a moment Let me share one final thought. I don’t want to lay this
as to what can be “realistically” accomplished by whoever all at the feet of Democrats, to suggest they alone can help
gets through the gauntlets of debates, primaries, caucuses bring about normalcy simply by bringing change to 1600

52 WINTER 2019

Photo credit Wikimedia.org: Leena A. Krohn, photographer

…Not War. A 1971 Vietnam War protest in Washington, D.C.

Pennsylvania Avenue. Even if Democrats take a more try, where you campaign like hell against the other party
conciliatory approach to politics, they still need Republicans but afterwards reach across the aisle to find a little common
to play ball. And if recent history is any indicator, even a ground. Now, wouldn’t that be nice?
change at the White House won’t get Republicans to be the Mark D. Olshan, who holds a doctorate in psychology, is associate
political party of comity and civility. executive vice president of B’nai B’rith International and director of
the organization’s Center for Senior Services.
But, hopefully, it’s not too late. Hopefully, we can go back
to some sense of “normal” political squabbling … a coun-

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