Key Word: Compromise
You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? He talked — and talked and talked — about how there were going to be no more red states and blue states, how he was going to bring Americans together, including Republicans and Democrats.
Exactly where did everybody think this gathering was going to take place? Left field?
When an extremely intelligent politician tells you over and over and over that he is tired of the take-no-prisoners politics of the last several decades, that he is going to get things done and build a “new consensus,” he is trying to explain that he is all about compromise. Even if he says it in that great Baracky way.
The Audacity of Listening
posted by Degolar @ 9:38 AM
2 Comments:
Pardon my expression here, but fuck compromise. You cannot compromise with the insane. You cannot compromise important principles of Constitutional Liberties. "Compromise" in certain contexts is simply a nicer way of saying "Capitulation." If B.O. thinks he can come to some sort of acceptable compromise with the goals of the modern, Rovian, GOP, he is in for a rather rude awakening.
While I want to agree with you (and in some ways do), ultimately I believe in the idea of a democracy where everything is hashed out in compromise and none of those on the extremes are ever fully happy (including me) but no one is completely mis-represented either. Lately its all been one extreme or the other and we have had people feeling completely excluded. Thus your anger.
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