Compromise is the name of the game today. Middle of the road is where most of us are urged to be and seemingly want to be. Dems and Repubs are urged to meet halfway on virtually all issues: abortion (ok, lets allow them for the first 6 months), border security (lets let another 40 million illegals in and then we can tighten security), mandatory health insurance (lets limit premium increases to 40%), and on and on. Holding firm to a political position because you believe it is right is considered hard-nosed, and you an extremist. Don't want any of those around here!
Where would we be today if the Founding Fathers had compromised their views? I guess we would have unalienable rights on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays only. If Lincoln had freed only half the slaves, if the Allies had opened only half the concentration camps, if Rosa Parks had moved to the middle of the bus?
We wouldn't be America, that's for sure. We wouldn't be a semblance of it. Is it not clear to all that when the good compromises with evil, when right meets halfway with wrong, it is evil that wins, and wrong that prevails. Should the FBI meet with the underworld and agree not to crack down on its members until they have killed a certain minimum number each year, or sold a minimum amount of hard drugs to children? Are you not an extremist, an absolutist, when it comes to protecting your family and those you love?
I suspect many who hold the right views on the issues are happy to surrender halfway because they can't prove the correctness of their positions...and thus, in a way, are not sure they are right. When I first heard Ayn Rand speak, the very first thing she said was "Don't accept a thing I say unless I prove to you that it is right." I had never before heard any public figure say that...and haven't heard another since.
Saving our country from overbearing, controlling, politicians begins with education. Which is why the government should not be in charge of it.
Read my post, Proof of Freedom. It can come in handy some day.
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