Reply #6: This is true, and a huge problem with the idea that we can afford to compromise:

[Jefferson23]

**The nature of American politics is that once a policy is removed from the partisan wars – once it is adopted by the leadership of both parties – it is removed from mainstream debate and fortified as bipartisan consensus (end)

The Telecommunications Act 1996, Glass -Steagall repealed, Military Commission's Act 2006. I could go on, but you get
the point.



What bothers me is the suggestion, or is it pure belief, that "purist, far left" voter's are the
ones who will destroy what we have left?


K&R