Reply #12: I wish we lived in a time when civility was possible, but this is not such a time.

[burning rain]

With rare exceptions, reasonable compromise is not possible with today's Republicans, because they are not reasonable. They are almost all destroyers and not builders. They are hellbent on destroying government and letting private interests have everything their own way. Sorry to say, I think we're better served to embrace conflict, put together the largest majority coalition we can, steamroll the opposition, and drag them kicking and screaming into a better future for all of us.