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In reply to the discussion: "Making the perfect the enemy of the good." [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I'm fine with compromise-but is it asking too much to make it clear that the compromise is only temporary, and to immediately encourage the people disappointed with the compromise to go out and start working for win support for more?
And there is such a thing as an intolerable compromise, as something where you have to accept too much ugliness to get a tiny bit of good. The decision to actually sign the '96 welfare bill-something that no one who would even have considered voting to re-elect Bill was insisting on-and to add insult to the betrayal by actually holding a ceremony for the signing and treating it as though it was something a decent human being would applaud, was an intolerable compromise.
There is no indication that any significant number of people voted to re-elect the Clinton-Gore ticket only because that choice was made.
And I'm sorry, but there can't be a greater progressive good that can ever be serve by a betrayal of the poor.