Compromise should be the filthiest word in a conservatives dictionary. All “compromise” means to a leftist is “We’ll take some of what we want now and then brow beat and bully the rest out of them later”.
Leftists, liberals, socialists and other assorted filth do not negotiate in good faith. There is no bargain or compromise that can be made that can convince them not to move on to the next supposed grievance they have with reality.
@Bacle , on some level I understand your desire for peace and unification. These are urges and feelings I myself once had and they are, in certain aspects, a sign of good character.
They are also, unfortunately, naive. I don’t mean to offer offense here, but your insistence that compromise can be made is, I think, wrong.
I won’t ascribe morality or put words in your mouth here. I don’t know you or your motivations, so doing either would be presumptuous of me.
I will just say that I have to reject the moral axiom I think you are coming from. Whether we like it or not, whether we want to accept it or not, this is a tribal war and a battle for the very future and soul of the country. There is no compromise to be made, no bargain to be struck, nothing that can buy us peace at this point.
To paraphrase Kipling:
“We must never pay the danegeld. No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost.”
These people want us dead or imprisoned, our children raped or castrated, and they think it’s funny.
They will never stop at just the confederates, they will never be satisfied with just Lee going down. Anyone that’s been paying attention during these riots sees that their goal is nothing less than the destruction and replacement of every western historical figure of note.
I’m not going to say something foolish like you’re either with us or with the anarchists. Every man must, ultimately, come to the conclusion of what’s worth fighting for based upon his own morality and principles.
For my own stance, I spit on the hand of compromise and any demonrat that extends it.
After all, their other hand hides a knife behind their back.