Reply #6: That does seem to be what they are saying, doesn't it? [View All]

Most telling is that in all these "renegotiations" it is the poor, minorities, women, and working people who will lose...to the profit of the 1% and Corporations. Why are some so willing to take steps backward? We have been timidly compromising, giving in, for the last thirty years, where has it gotten us? Greater inequality, escalating losses of civil liberties, a deteriorating enviroment, a gutted safety net, not to mention becoming torturers and slaughterers of children....how much lower do we want to go?

I always want to ask those promoting "compromise" with the radical right agenda which of our great leaps forward were accomplished without bold vision and the demand for justice backed up by civil disobediance and strikes at the least? Ending slavery? No. The vote for women? No. Voting rights for African Americans? No. Labor rights? No. Those who struggled for our rights did not ask for justice in steps - they called for justice now. Not letting women just vote in local elections, say, "on the way" to full enfranchisement.

Demand the whole pie, then fight for every slice- THAT'S pragmatism.