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In reply to the discussion: The Ideologically Pure Ruin US Politics [View all]CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)You have only proved to me that you haven't got a hint of clue what you are writing about.
The Animal Farm story had absolutely nothing to do with compromise. There is an old saying: "Compromise is the art of dividing a cake such that everyone thinks that they have the biggest piece". Go back and read the story again, there was no "dividing of the cake". What happened was that the pigs used the fear of the farmer coming back to manipulate the other animals into letting them have all of the good food (the whole cake). This is not compromise, it is the use of fear and and intimation to achieve a political end.
In real life a parallel of this story might be the Republicans using the American public's fear of terrorist attacks to pass legislation which allows the NSA to read everyone's email. There is no compromise is involved in this real live case either. It is using fear to take the entire cake; it is one side getting exactly what they want while giving away absolutely nothing.
If you still can't see the difference, then further conversation with you is a waste of time.
So rather than crowing about your no existent "prodigious intellect", pay more attention to the saying, "It is better to keep silent and let people think that you are ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."