@roamer_1 @Maj. Bill Martin
Exactly wrong. So called 'conservatives have been compromising ever since the 94 congress. It gets us nothing. In the mean time, liberals have shoved their crap right down our throat, by hook or by crook, and have advanced on every front.
No, doing nothing because you insist only 100% is acceptable gets you
nothing. And the left has beaten us over the decades not because they accept nothing less than 100%, but because they'll take 10% each year if they can get it. We lose when the moderates join the Democrats, or there is just a Democratic majority, that actually moves things to the
left. We don't lose because movement to the right isn't as much as we'd like.
Look at Obamacare itself. The Progressive Caucus rebelled because they wanted single payer,
and we conservatives were hoping they'd stay rebellious. Had they held firm -- as you advocate as a strategy -- Obamacare would have failed. But the Progressive Caucus ended up voting for ObamaCare despite the lack of a single payer option because they figured moving the ball a bit in their direction was better than not moving it at all. And from the perspective of a leftist, they were right.
Nonsense. Conservatives seek to promote conservative principles, and are doing precisely what is necessary. Who should be ashamed are so called 'moderates' and our liberal president.
Blaming moderates because they're not conservatives doesn't get any legislation passed. It's just virtue-signaling. The whole Randian myth of a Galt's Gulch or economic Ragnarok that results in a conservative society emerging from the rubble of a collapsed society is a big fat myth. You don't win by losing. You win by winning, and that has nothing to do with Trump.
In military terms, you are essentially issuing a "no retreat" order, and we all know how well that worked out for von Paulus and the Sixth Army at Stalingrad.