It's what Congress is all about: Republicans and Democrats get together in conference to hammer out a negotiated bill that gives both sides some of what they each are trying to get.
It's what unions are talking to their management about to secure good working conditions and wages for their members.
You know, I think that since union membership has sunk after the 1950s, etc., there's not been enough emphasis given to the importance that groups, working for a common purpose, ought to spend time negotiating among them. That is to say, we need more of negotiations in our day-to-day transactions, so that Congress won't feel that it alone in the country negotiates settlements among its various factions!
One man rule is not the condition for negotiating: the potentate issues what he wants done; and it is up to his subjects to obey or else! But, democracies bring the various groups making up a society together and they all sit down and reason together--they negotiate--for the good of all concerned. Importantly, the factions are treated equally, all wanting that the process works to their interest and the interest of the society to which they belong.
We need to promote more the notion of negotiation among those representing different points of view, because it's an important feature that humans can do: to reason things to an amicable conclusion, compared with those in the animal world who don't have this capacity of settling differences through conversing together in negotiation.
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