Letter to BS: Extremes are required to check on liberal ideas gone too far

A culture of coalescence, compromise and consensus cultivates group think, discourages dissent and leads to the continuation of bad policies

This refers to the editorial “The rise of the extremes” (September 11). It places too much faith on compromise but compromises can sometimes be worse than doing nothing. For example, compromising on a half bridge is dumber than no bridge or a whole bridge. The decisions by Donald Trump such as scrapping Iran deal and the policy of no-deal with dictatorial/tyrannical regimes in North Korea and Afghanistan are examples where a compromise is neither feasible nor advisable. A culture of coalescence, compromise and consensus cultivates group think, discourages dissent and leads to the continuation of bad economic policies such as