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That's the kind of middle ground with fascism the Democratic party is engaging in...
You can make compromises, you can find a middle ground. But that ground has to be stable, it can't be compromised from the get go - that's how you get Obamacare, a payout to insurance companies that has a few positives baked in
If it's compromised from the start, you haven't done anything positive - you've just opened the floor to bastardize it further
I guess I'm just stuck in the 90's mindset of trying to find compromise. I know that idea was on the decline then, but I still, maybe foolishly, hold on to it.
I mean, the 90s are what got us here...
You can't try to meet the opposition halfway, especially not when they're ideologically opposed to your goals. Especially when they're dishonest. Especially when they stretch and exploit the rules to get their way.
Even if their strategy wasn't to rig the system and manipulate the game, they are oppositional on near everything.
It just ends up in you starting the negotiation halfway, before they compromise 75% in their favor, and they might squeeze another bit here and there
The 90s were not a good time politically - it was a civil time. It was also constant pull to the right, we dismantled our social safety nets, we let worker protections get whittled down, we let corporations grow too powerful to reign in. We even removed banking regulations that allowes the 2008 recession, and it all culminated in citizens united.
Our problems now are because of that attitude... Congress used to occasionally erupt into fist fights, and it was better for it. You need the push and pull, or you get the uni party the GOP and Democratic party became - two faces squabbling over social issues as they cooperated to sell out the people
Well in my defense I was a young kid and I was left unattended so I could be indoctrinated by the media to believe cooperation was happening.
I just want to try and find a peaceful way to bring about change, because I fear the only way to make things better will be us having to suffer though a bloody civil war and decades of domestic terrorism from the losers.