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In reply to the discussion: The Ideologically Pure Ruin US Politics [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Another in a long line of tired false equivalency arguments.
The Far Right WILL NOT compromise. They have staked their reputation, image, and policies on that, and have done so since Gingrich. Further, they have cleaned house of those in the "old GOP" which did compromise with Democrats. The self-cleaning by the Far Right is thorough and structured -- it is in large measure why they have been successful, most esp. at the state level.
What remains is whether or not Democrats compromise with the GOP as it continues relentlessly to dismember any social safety net, any guarantee of a woman's right to choose, any environmental protection, any worker protection, anything that smacks of pre-Teddy Roosevelt philosophy and policy.
You want that?
Before anyone answers, consider that the Far Right harbors nothing but contempt for liberals and Democrats, a contempt based most profoundly on the weakness of the Party, and its likelihood of caving (to put it in a Christian way) on any particular issue. And the GOP always acts accordingly.
That is my measured, limited and reasonable opinion.