LGBT activist Robert Pinter-"the fringe left is just as strident as the tea party on the right"

[graham4anything]

37. without compromise, one wouldn't have gotten FDR or LBJ, nor Lincoln's getting rid of slavery.

LBJ had to compromise his values a bit to accept the thankless job as VP with JFK.
However, without doing so, the Civil Rights/Voting rights and all the great stuff LBJ did
never would have been a reality

LBJ knew his becoming VP would beat Nixon and he was 100% correct.
He would have beaten Nixon in 1968 too, had the extreme left not sold him, the #1 most liberal/progressive to the point of being a socialist President of all time.

fools.
the war didn't end any sooner than it would have and look what allowing Nixon in, did for the rest of the years til 2008.

AND btw, the only protest movement that worked, was a MAINSTREAM protest movement, NOT from the far left, but from the middle, that Dr. King did.
He didn't ask anyone who joined his protest to be pure in political party.
He didn't ask LBJ NOT to look for republican votes when the DEMOCRAT DIXIECRATS OF RACIST GEORGE WALLACE would not vote for them
He looked for passage and LBJ got it anyway he could.

Pure? That would be George Wallace, the racist. If one wants pure-then George Wallace and Ron and Rand Paul, they are purists in the vilest sense among all other sense.
Now, would Wallace be considered right or left? I consider him a fringe extreme.
Makes no difference if it was right or left. Just makes it wrong.