Unfortunately “compromise” became a dirty word with several things: 1.) the “post-colonial” review of history and slavery and putting a “post-truth” & Post-colonial framework on history: how did the founding fathers, even ones who weren’t slave owners or had doubts like Washington who freed his slaves in his will, how did they not get ri…
Unfortunately “compromise” became a dirty word with several things: 1.) the “post-colonial” review of history and slavery and putting a “post-truth” & Post-colonial framework on history: how did the founding fathers, even ones who weren’t slave owners or had doubts like Washington who freed his slaves in his will, how did they not get rid of slavery right away (compromise with southerners like Jefferson was the reason slavery wasn’t eliminated. In fact how could they ever do it to begin with? So they are clearly simply bad people, so all their ideas are bad), therefore compromise is bad, therefore No compromise. That will “stop” all obviously immoral actions by obviously completely immoral people & 2.) Bill Clinton’s 2-term election/administration, lies and sleeze, but also perhaps something more (I was shocked to see how much they HATED the Clintons, even before Obama) and things related to the Republican reaction to him. & 3.) the internet arose for broad use in the 1990’s. Its impact and the social media platforms that grew from it cannot be underestimated as contributing to a lot of negatives for humans and American democracy specifically (see next point) & 4.) I also think that the leftist/Cold War long march through the institutions with all the “down on/death to America”, “post-truth”, “post-colonial”, racial (“anti-racism”), etc - find all negatives and overly focus on them and build a self-loathing and universal-loathing “narrative” to destroy morale, unity, & cohesiveness. Destroy American-style democracy and any /all “western” democracy. Help to support collectivism/ authoritarianism/toltalrianism.
Unfortunately “compromise” became a dirty word with several things: 1.) the “post-colonial” review of history and slavery and putting a “post-truth” & Post-colonial framework on history: how did the founding fathers, even ones who weren’t slave owners or had doubts like Washington who freed his slaves in his will, how did they not get rid of slavery right away (compromise with southerners like Jefferson was the reason slavery wasn’t eliminated. In fact how could they ever do it to begin with? So they are clearly simply bad people, so all their ideas are bad), therefore compromise is bad, therefore No compromise. That will “stop” all obviously immoral actions by obviously completely immoral people & 2.) Bill Clinton’s 2-term election/administration, lies and sleeze, but also perhaps something more (I was shocked to see how much they HATED the Clintons, even before Obama) and things related to the Republican reaction to him. & 3.) the internet arose for broad use in the 1990’s. Its impact and the social media platforms that grew from it cannot be underestimated as contributing to a lot of negatives for humans and American democracy specifically (see next point) & 4.) I also think that the leftist/Cold War long march through the institutions with all the “down on/death to America”, “post-truth”, “post-colonial”, racial (“anti-racism”), etc - find all negatives and overly focus on them and build a self-loathing and universal-loathing “narrative” to destroy morale, unity, & cohesiveness. Destroy American-style democracy and any /all “western” democracy. Help to support collectivism/ authoritarianism/toltalrianism.