Reply #12: Ah, but is it better to TRY to make a huge positive difference... [View All]

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...and fail, or to try to make a small positive difference and succeed?

Certainly there is such a thing as too much compromise. Certainly there are times when you have to fight on principle and hope for the best. There are also times for compromise, even bitter compromise.

The trouble is deciding what each circumstance and each issue calls for. It's easy to be an idealist on the sidelines and insist that all of the problems in the world are due to not enough people "standing up for what is right", to blame all the woes of the world on those terrible, terrible people who recommend compromise (who obviously must be in league for some nefarious purpose!). What's hard is case-by-case deciding when to compromise and how much, while still staying true to some important principles in the process.

I certainly think the current Democratic has compromised too much on too many issues, either that or sold out to major corporate interests. How to fix that, that I don't know how to do. I'm pretty sure, however, that some of the things that people do when angry and disillusioned, like voting for third party candidates who barely stand a ghost of a chance of winning, or not voting at all, don't help.