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I’ve told this story on FR a couple times but it’s relavant here on this topic as well. In the mid/late 90s-2001 I was Senior ed at Off-Road.com, an off-road motorsport site that had landuse issues as a big part of our agenda.

The largest problem we faced was not Earth First, the ALF or Sierra Club. It was the Apathy and ‘go along/get along’ attitude of our readership (which was second only to NASCAR.com in the motorsports realm of the day). I cannot tell you how much hate mail I got from fellow off-roaders upset that I/we were hardcore anti-econut. In the many landuse issues/closure issues of the time, many wanted ‘compromise’ with the greenies and wanted us to ‘moderate’ our stance because we were ‘hurting’ the sport.

Today, every one of the places we were fighting over back then have been compromised into closure or hyper restriction.

THAT is what compromise on the issues gets people. Incrementalism proves that the path to success is by demanding a lot, taking a little and coming back for as many tomorrows as needed until the job gets done.

Compromise of 50% leaves 50%. Compromise of that leaves you 25 and so on. That is exactly how the GOP advances liberalism. And they do it because the Mittbots and appeasers in the ‘base’ clamor for it.

I am glad you will not join them.

"Compromise of 50% leaves 50%. Compromise of that leaves you 25 and so on. That is exactly how the GOP advances liberalism. And they do it because the Mittbots and appeasers in the ‘base’ clamor for it."

Thats great in theory, but what will happen if we all just stay home? Thats right, 4 more years of Obama.

Believe me, I hate the way things have gotten and its extremely frusterating to see the most liberal condidate get nominated every single time, but the alternative put up by the D's is always worse. Better a wishy-washy rino than a diehard communist fanatic. And thats our only choices.