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[Perd Hapley]

Can you name any such compromises in the recent past?  Can you name a compromise that you are looking to see? 

[Ron]

I am starting to suffer from the same affliction that third party/Libertarians suffer from.

It has just about reached the point where I want the leftists to succeed so I can chuckle at the stupidity of the masses.

How much more compromise can there be? Our modern Republicans are to the left of the Democrats of the 50's and 60's.

Compromise is a one way street turning left. The socialists in our midst never compromise, they make tactical retreats and attack again later. The left is winning and the Republican strategy to impose leftist legislation with a Republican spin leaves us conservatives unmotivated.

What is the point of "winning" if all we are doing is at worse contributing to the decline of our country and at best prolonging the inevitable?

[Lee]

"Our modern Republicans are to the left of the Democrats of the 50's and 60's."

50's and 60's?  Hell...they're left of many current ones.  Thow in corruption, perversion and plain ol stupidity and it's easy to see why they just won majorities.

[LandShark]

Can you name any such compromises in the recent past?  Can you name a compromise that you are looking to see? 

Its not that I can name any exact instances, but I think that the personally disagreeable extremes on both sides can only be mellowed by compromise. Jut to put my views into perspective, I'm anti nanny state, pro union, pro small govt., pro choice kind of a moderate.

[Perd Hapley]

Landshark, I guess we see things differently because you think of the "far-right" as being extreme, whereas I think of them as being quite sensible.  While I'm sure I could think of a few right-wingers that are extreme, the far-right is generally quite bland in terms of ideology. 

If you can perceive of the pro-abortion point of view as moderate, then we will never see things the same way.  In my view, allowing abortion even in cases of rape or incest is quite extreme.  That's just the difference between our ways of thinking, I suppose. 

[LandShark]

I don't want to start the abortion debate, but in IMO life doesn't start until the child take it's first unassisted breath. Our views on that subject will always differ. I can see your point of view, but I don't subscribe to it.
I find a certain amount of sensible ideas on the extremes of both sides, I also see a lot of dogmatic crap. To me, neither side has enough good policy to make up for the bad.

[Perd Hapley]

life doesn't start until the child take it's first unassisted breath.

I have to admit that's not extreme.  It just has no basis in science, law or anything else, unless it's your religious beliefs, perhaps.  But if one uses this as a rationale for killing a live human individual, just to save a woman from nine difficult months, that would be extreme, indeed.  Especially considering that most pregnancies result from consensual sex. 

[Otherguy Overby]

Hey, this was my thread.  Wanna talk about abortion?  Start your own thread, Okay?

Besides it should be easy to realize a lot of women might resent a third party telling them what to do or not to do inside their very own bodies.  I thought this was supposed to be America...

[Perd Hapley]

It just kills me how many otherwise politically-aware people can believe and spout that line without feeling embarassed.  I could take your tack and ignore any rational argument and just repeat my own bumper-sticker slogan here, but I thought better of it.  OK, I'll quit talking about it if you will.   

Edit:  Bumper sticker slogan removed by El Silencio.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Hey, this was my thread.  Wanna talk about abortion?  Start your own thread, Okay?

Besides it should be easy to realize a lot of women might resent a third party telling them what to do or not to do inside their very own bodies.  I thought this was supposed to be America...

It should be easy to realize that the baby might resent third parties killing him/herself.  But that's OK, there are laws in place to protect him/her from murder.  Right?  Umm, right?  Oh.     I thought this was supposed to be America...