You can’t go anywhere right now without hearing something about the government shutdown and Trump’s wall. It is dominating news outlets of all types. The Chicago Tribune posted an editorial, entitled “Editorial: Trump and Democrats: Stop embarrassing yourselves. Cut a wall-for-Dreamers deal.” Put the kettle on, brew some calming tea, and let’s get started.

In this article, the author talks about a wall being immoral, but a shutdown being unethical. He or she says it’s embarrassing that both sides are strutting and trying to look tough instead of trying to find a way to fix this. The author argues that there should be a solution here that can be a sort of compromise. He or she suggests allowing the wall to be built only if DACA is allowed to continue.

I appreciate that this author acknowledges there are several issues at play here. This has gone beyond one man’s ideas and is now involving hundreds of thousands of people who had nothing to do with the decision. This author is suggesting a viable compromise that will end the shutdown and help those hundreds of thousands of people plus all the “dreamers” taking advantage of DACA.

I’m not going to pretend to have some deep understanding of politics, but I feel like I understand people fairly well. When two people are in an argument, if an agreement for one side or the other cannot be reached, a compromise is often the best solution. To me, this sounds like a decent solution. It will make supporters of the wall happy, but also make supporters of DACA happy. Beyond that, innocent government employees will stop being used as pawns in a fight they didn’t start. The American Civil War was referred to as “The rich man’s war, but the poor man’s fight.” Whatever solution is reached, it must be a compromise that also ends this poor man’s fight.

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