Bipartisanship is a political situation in which opposing political parties find common ground through compromise, usually in the context of a two-party system. It involves trying to find common ground, but there is debate whether the issues needing common ground are peripheral or central ones. Bipartisanship can refer to any political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice. It is marked by or involving cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties. Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from an original version of legislation or other proposal. Bipartisanship is not about abandoning your party or politics, but rather finding ways to marry policy ideas and political principles from both sides to produce something greater than the sum of its parts. Failure to attain bipartisan support in a two-party system can easily lead to legislative gridlock, with each side angering the other, their constituencies, and the general public.