That's what conservatives have been saying for over a century.
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Replying to @Outsideness
They were right. Nobody is happy on the grounds they won in--they would have preferred to win some and lose some rather than win all in one category, lose all in another.
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Any right-wing goal short of absolute independence will be pawned.
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Replying to @orthonormalist
Surrendering absolutes for bad-ratchet compromises is how the right threw everything away.
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Replying to @Outsideness
And the left. Everyone throws everything away and no one will ever get what they want. You know better than this.
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Replying to @orthonormalist
No, I don't. The notion of right-left compromise is heading straight into the trash. The only reason to hang onto it is belief in the benefits of Union. That's dying.
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... "Clearly, if you refuse to compromise, we'll just have to separate." -- That's the end game.
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agreeing to disagree is still an agreement...
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There has to be a point at which a deterrent stand-off ceases to be helpfully represented as a doctrinal convergence.
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... Extreme whiff of Hegelianism otherwise. (Which no doubt @adornofthagn would chuckle at.)
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yeah, mostly at the notion that hegelian tentacles can be escaped by doctrinal divergence
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