Losing respect for Rand Paul

[Pat Mustard]

I don;t see compromise for the sake of compromise as a virtue.  I'm not interested in being a part of the 3rd and a 1/2 Reich.

It's not compromise for the sake of compromise that I'm advocating -- indeed, the only thing I am advocating is getting rid of the "my way or the highway" attitude amongst regular people. Not that I think that'll actually happen. Too many people are emotionally invested in that sort of horseshit.

Sucks that I have to ride the same fucking bus that their arguing has at a standstill.

Compromise only works when both sides give up what doesn't work of their own ideologies in favour of what works of the other sides'.

For the lat forty years that is the opposite of what has happened in compromise terms. In reality all that has happened is that the left continually cedes on its own policies and positions (giving up everything that works in the process) moving to the right to stay close to the ever more far-right conservative movement. That's not compromise, that's craven cowardice.