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In reply to the discussion: Rachel had it Right, now DU is getting it wrong. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,038 posts)I mean you can insist that there is a plausible path but like all others with similar arguments, nothing but platitudes, pointing to decades past, and for all practical intent inherently arguing for capitulation because there is no other plausible outcome.
We aren't talking about some hypothetical conservatives or Ike or even despicable Reagan here.
No, rolling over and hoping for karma to get them or whatever passive, get along to get on bullshit is being pitched to have no other real world impact than advancing a toxic agenda that is devastating to most Americans.
You also make no accounting of what has already been given up, a lot of folks have no room for "compromises", another inch and they fall off.
How many do you want to push off the ledge, who gets their knuckles stomped to get what?
In real life, not fantasyland. If they are really desperate to keep funneling the money to the few, they'll give a minimum of votes on some social issue with some additional concessions along the way
With this bunch, one cannot even wave the white flag and give them what they claim to want. The goalposts not only are on wheels but they seem to be motorized. Have you slipped the deficit commission fiasco as well, when Obama (with generational majorities, mind you) gave in and the TeaPubliKlan sponsors dropped off from the bill, Obama then on his own revived the deal in the infamous Catfood Commission which the gave the gas face, then on to the conservative loaded "gangs" but they couldn't have a cent in revenues despite serious advancements on multi-generational aims for them, and on to the sequester that they now want out of (or at least the military side)?
We can't get a single vote for a Heritage Foundation designed health care system built from acorn to leaf to prevent actual systemic reform offered by Gingrich and Dole and implemented by their most recent standard bearer. A mark that they got over a hundred amendments on, to boot?
Be serious, what "compromising" is there and who with? It matters not one iota if TDR was the conservation President and busted trust, or the Ike built the interstates, or that Nixon signed the EPA, or that Reagan allowed amnesty because they aren't here and these guys can't even take yes for an answer.
Fine sentiment with no current practical application other than to do what they want for them and therefore shoulder the blame.
That is fucking stupid.