I got to thinking that we, the politically apathetic American electorate with our cynical talk and embarrassingly lax voting habits, could learn a lot from Lou. If you can't find Lou, though, you could just turn on The West Wing . The West Wing , NBC's drama set in a fictional American White House, has exactly the quality Lou possesses. The conversation turns to some political topic, doesn't even matter which one. Because the law of averages says that if that group is large enough, at least two people are going disagree on that topic.
Political disagreements are uncomfortable.
Political disagreements are tacky. But as I write this, The West Wing is in its second season. Looks to me like political disagreements just won a boatload of Emmys and make up one of the few truly thought-provoking hours of television. But, like the cab driver who to debates the government's drug policy while skirting construction on I-95, the creative team behind the West Wing is brave. Their goal is to challenges that belief.