Why are Left & Right so hard to reconcile?

[The T]

A fascinating thread. For the first five pages, I counted all the posts which:

1) declared or strongly inferred that the poster would refuse any compromise
2) brought up partisan grievances (unprovoked)
3) suggested secession

Posts which attempted to describe the ideological dichotomy or political gridlock, but with some kind of bias, I ignored.

I counted 14. All conservative posts.

This is not to say that there weren't conservatives who entered the thread in the spirit it was created, who discussed the problem even-handedly and contemplated solutions, because there were. And it's not even to say that no liberals got mean or pushed their own versions of events aggressively, because they did. But every single one of those who in some way rejected compromise outright (in the first five pages) did so from an extremely conservative position.

Nice try, but when you listen to the liberals in DC, compromise means agreeing with them. They wanted compromise on the ACA bill, but only if the republicans voted for it as written, no floor debate was allowed, no GOP amendments were allowed, no one read it before it became law---------------is that what you call compromise?

Compromise to a democrat is agree to give them your money so they can piss it away.

Same as the term "Bipartisan"...It means Republicans capitulate to Statists.

 

[RKMBrown]

Nice try, but when you listen to the liberals in DC, compromise means agreeing with them. They wanted compromise on the ACA bill, but only if the republicans voted for it as written, no floor debate was allowed, no GOP amendments were allowed, no one read it before it became law---------------is that what you call compromise?

Compromise to a democrat is agree to give them your money so they can piss it away.

Same as the term "Bipartisan"...It means Republicans capitulate to Statists.

IMO the only good/valid compromise is to let them eff up their states and leave our states the hell alone. If california wants to be a hand-out hell hole let em, but stay the hell away from Texas.

 

[The T]

Compromise to a democrat is agree to give them your money so they can piss it away.

Same as the term "Bipartisan"...It means Republicans capitulate to Statists.

IMO the only good/valid compromise is to let them eff up their states and leave our states the hell alone. If california wants to be a hand-out hell hole let em, but stay the hell away from Texas.

And Florida.

 

[RKMBrown]

Same as the term "Bipartisan"...It means Republicans capitulate to Statists.

IMO the only good/valid compromise is to let them eff up their states and leave our states the hell alone. If california wants to be a hand-out hell hole let em, but stay the hell away from Texas.

And Florida.

Ayup. It's important to have states freedom loving people can go to, to get away from the scared dumb asses that can't take care of themselves or their families without government holding their hands from cradle to grave.

Florida was a solid conservative state till they let the feds shove millions of hand-out seeking poverty stricken democrat immigrants down there.