There
is an aspect of compromise that is generally overlooked, especially by those
who hold compromise up as a moral imperative.
It is simply this: If you are
winning, why would you want to compromise?
Let’s
define our terms here, because words really do mean things. Compromise is NOT discussing differing
opinions and selecting the best one. It
is not even discussing differing opinions and selecting the best parts of each
and combining them into a much better synthesis. These are simply rational operations. If two people disagree on the best way to do
something, and one of them realizes the other really does have the better idea
and adopts it, it is NOT compromise!
Compromise
is when two people hold different, or contradictory ideas. They take some parts of one and some of the
other, and produce a mongrel atrocity that hasn’t a chance in hell of
working. In economics, for example, one
person might say, “The free market is the best and only solution to the
unemployment problem,” and another might say, “No, the free market caused the
problem; the only solution is government control of the market.”
The
imperative of compromise says that each person must give away something of his
own position. The result is usually
something like, “We’ll let businesses with more than 1,000 employees charge
whatever they want, but smaller businesses will be controlled by the
government,” or, “Instead of granting amnesty to 30 million illegals, like we
want, or to none, like you want, we’ll grant it to 15 million.” Each person must put up with something they
consider thoroughly evil and unworkable.
The result is a bastardized monstrosity, and when it fails, both sides
say it failed because of too much pollution from the other side.
It
is precisely like arguing over the amount of rat poison to put in a pot of soup
– and at this level of discussion, it doesn’t matter which side of this
argument is considered rat poison.
Compromise
is agreeing to be raped if the rapist will use a condom. It is agreeing to give a robber some of your
money, or a politician some of your freedom.
So. Back to compromise as a tactic of the loser.
If
you truly believe that you are right, and that you can win an argument,
contest, or election, would you go to your opponent and say, “Hey, your ideas
are insane bullpoop, but I want to let a little of it into my plan.” Of course not. If you are holding a winning hand, there’s no
way you’d go out of your way to give the other guy a break, at least not on a
major point of principle.
When
someone calls for compromise, you know immediately that they don’t think they
can win the whole thing, and are hoping to sucker you into letting them have a
little bit. Next time, they’ll get a
little bit more, and a little bit more, and so on, until they’ve got the whole
thing. If they’re losing anyway, any
little thing they can get is a victory for them. Think about that. The power held by the statists today was
never once granted because they were wholly right. They got it because the other side gave it to
them, a little at a time, through compromise after compromise. That’s right.
They have NEVER been right; they have only been canny.
Truth
and right need never compromise.
Obviously,
this is a two-edged sword! If the
statists have the winning hand, you better believe they won’t compromise, because
they understand this business. That is
what happened with the sequester and the later shutdown. The statists knew they could not lose in the
long run because their propaganda machine would turn the entire nation against
those who tried to hold the line.
To
reject compromise altogether is a very brave thing. You are saying, “It will either be my way or
your way, but you’re not going to get my sanction for your idiocy by including
some trivial aspect of my idea.”
It
is this courage of convictions that is so pathetically lacking in the
Republican leadership. They are scared
to death of losing everything. They
honestly believe, apparently, that if we agree to eat some rat poison on issues
where WE have power, the Democrats will agree to eat some when THEY have power. Unfortunately, the Democrats know how this
works, and while they will give every assurance of future poison-eating, they
have no intention of actually doing it.
So we eat a little poison – we accept a little of the anti-life Democrat
program – and a little more, and a little more, until one day, there is no food
left, and it’s all poison.
As
long as we are living with this half-assed whatever it is, the propaganda mill
will keep telling people it isn’t working is because of the capitalistic
pollution forced on them by those Tea Party radicals. The people, being the result of a hundred
years of compromise in education, will believe it, and vote accordingly. The only solution is to force this nation to
accept one set of ideas in its entirety.
The people will then be able to see what works and what doesn’t.
The
alternative is to refuse to compromise on ANY principle. Make them do it all their way, which will be
a catastrophe, or accept it all our way.
The problem with this is that their way is not survivable, and they’ll
never willingly go along with doing it all our way. We have compromised over and over, until we
have arrived at the point where no more is possible. At the present time, the statists have the
upper hand, and it looks like we’ll be trying things their way for a
while. That means, unfortunately, that
they will do their best to destroy our means of ever regaining control and
trying it all our way. If they are
successful in this, freedom will be banished from the world, and our children
for generations to come – until He returns – will live as slaves of the
drooling mob.
There
are only two courses of action available to us:
to go along with whatever they drive down our throats, or to abandon the
constitutional process and force the issue by a passage of arms.
This
is not a new choice. We have never had
more than these two courses. If we
reject compromise, altogether, we will be forced to live under statist tyranny
or resist it by whatever means are necessary.
If
we continue to accept compromise, we will be forced to live under statist
tyranny until we can no longer endure it, and rise up. But by the time we rise up, our strength will
have been largely compromised away. Our chance of victory will be slim.
Rebsarge
11 Jan., 2014
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