Compromise-‘R’-Us

This morning I read an article that hits close to home, summarizes very well what most of us know, but I, for one, could not have said so effectively. The quote below is an excerpt from Compromise Is a Losing Strategy for Republicans.

The Democrat Party’s ascendance as the “Party of Government” during the 1960s led minority Republicans to accept a comfortable seat at the tax-and-spend table as compromisers with their Democrat colleagues. Rather than challenge Democrats on conservative constitutional principles and the tenets of the Republican Party platform itself, Republican leaders from the party’s establishment wing sought compromise as their ticket to perpetuation in power (albeit as controlled opposition for the Democrats). Compromise wins Republicans’ “strange new respect” in the Democrat-sympathetic legacy media, think tanks, and academia.

What is little known and not understood is that this is exactly the role that Democrats created for the Republican Party. Republicans, by and large, are bad politicians or, at the very least, are inept and don’t think strategically. On the other hand, Democrats, being the party of government, will do anything to advance their causes (which ultimately leads to more government and less freedom).

Thus, Democrats divined the tactical strategy of “compromise” and have been pushing it relentlessly via their media sycophants for decades: media polls in favor of “compromise” and “bipartisanship”; endless op-eds and commentary about the benefits to all Americans of comity and collegiality and “getting stuff done for the country”; claims that the American people don’t want confrontation, but rather “can’t we all get along”; etc.

When Republicans compromise on any topic, they move the political needle in the direction of the left - toward Democrat political objectives. Democrats never give up their core issues and principles. That’s why members of the GOP establishment are evaluated as merely delivering big government at a slower pace than Democrats do; they never live up to their core pro-constitutional, small government, low tax, and strong national defense principles because they are too eager to compromise them away, having been conditioned for decades by the Democrats and legacy media to do so.

A perfect example of the perpetuation of the compromise philosophy among “moderate” Republicans is the Problem Solvers Caucus, which is the latest Democrat concoction aimed at furthering compromise and moving the national agenda further to the left.

There have been Republican compromisers who have voted in favor of many Democrat-supported initiatives over the years. An example from 2013 was Senate Minority Leader McConnell’s compromise with Majority Leader Harry Reid to raise the federal debt ceiling, end a government shutdown, and essentially give away all Republican leverage on spending priorities to the Democrats.

McConnell and the GOP establishment have also rolled over for Biden and the Democrats. Last year, McConnell et al. caved to Chuck Schumer’s Democrats by giving them yet another emergency debt extension, which opened the floodgates for the democrats’ spending bills this year.

One of those budget-buster Democrat bills was the $280 billion computer chip funding bill, which, along with the $1 trillion “Infrastructure bill” (note how Democrat media outlet CNBC labels the bill as “bipartisan”) and Orwellian “Inflation Reduction Act” that includes $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service are the root causes for high inflation in the United States these days. These are Democrat spending bills that richly fund Democrat priorities, constituencies, and donors and force Green New Deal policies similar to those bankrupting the Europeans down our throats.

Concluding thoughts
Compromise is a strategy made to keep Republicans in the minority in the U.S. Congress and to hand the White House to the Democrat Party in perpetuity. Compromise by Republicans in Congress means giving up core Republican principles to “make a deal” with Democrats. The result is $30 trillion in national debt and counting, a host of cultural Marxist issues crammed down the throats of traditional Americans, the complete abdication of political leadership in Washington to the Democratic Party, and the implosion of the U.S. economy, military, and society in general that Americans are living in real-time.

Compromising Republicans are worse than Democrats, who at least are true to their socialist principles.

And so, my fellow Americans, I say to you, don’t compromise your principles. Keep up the fight for Judeo-Christian values and your Constitutional, God-given rights the founders and millions of Americans who have gone before fought and died for. (Compromise, but not of principles, is necessary in life. I especially think of voting because November 8th is right around the corner. Remember, If the bus doesn’t deliver you to the exact location of your destination, you take the bus that gets you the closest.)

I suggest you vote on Election Day, vote all the way down the ballot, take your sample ballot with you and be sure the ballot you get matches it. To get a sample ballot, click Ballotpedia.

It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
- Patrick Henry

Consider what Samuel Adams said about patriots.  “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
- Samuel Adams

French diplomat and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville said when he came to America, “America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

For whatever it is worth, the Declaration of Independence has weathered every storm for 245 years. It birthed a great nation. It abolished the sin of slavery. While we have failed the ideals of the Declaration time and again, I know of no time when the ideals have failed us. The Declaration of Independence establishes a moral ideal that we as citizens are duty-bound to uphold and sustain. We may fall short, but our imperfection does not relieve us of our obligation.
- Justice Clarence Thomas

The quotes above are timeless. Take heart; be encouraged. Stand up, speak up, take action.

Until next time…

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