"Democracy is a messy business."

"Democracy is a messy business." This may be one of the few things Donald Rumsfeld ever said that I agree with. Everybody is right, in their own mind, but their rights are always butting up against the rights of others. What is it, I wonder, in the human psyche, that convinces us we can solve our differences with "a left hook" rather than mutual understanding and empathy? Maybe we'll never get it right, as long as greed meets greed, and an unchained libido comes face to face with outraged empowerment.