Should Democrats and Republicans Compromise With Each Other?

[Oddball]

Like I asked before: What compromise did those who rammed Obolshevikcare up America's ass seek?

And, as Rand so poignantly observed, "compromise" only exists amongst people with the same basic mindset...I am not an authoritarian thug and refuse to play along with them, as some sort of window dressing for arrogant preening navel gazers like you two.

 

[elvis]

They should blow each other.

 

[The Infidel]

They should blow each other.

Impossible.... they are all impotent.

 

[kiwiman127]

Ayn Rand,,,who bitched and moaned about government programs,,,and then used them when she needed them. Now there's a person who had convictions and then betrayed those convictions. Good job, Oddball

 

[IndependntLogic]

There is one thing you can count on from Oddball, projection, conjecture and one train of thought.

Do I think that Republicans and Democrats should compromise, your damn straight they should compromise. Can they? Not with the current extremes that drive their parties. Is it smart to at least try to compromise? You know it.

I doubt there are very many successful business/corporations that don't consider all elements when devising a successful business model, that is how successful business stay that way, successful. I work in strategic planning for a very successful corporation. Every year our department produces several different approaches and ideas backed by data and demographics for the next year moving forward. Those plans are mulled over by upper management. Upper management comes back to us with their ideas based on the data we provide. Almost all the time they have taken what we have given them and integrated into a couple different approaches. In other words, different minds compromised into one or two plans. We provide upper management projected results long-term and short-term moving forward and then the final decision is made by the upper management board.

For some odd reason our two major political parties are lead by individuals were are seriously immature and lack the vision to consider all the options on the table and the result is a dysfunctional government that has failed those who have elected them and failed the country.

If Washington used a business model to govern by and compromise was instituted our country would be much better off than it is today.

To use a couple of posters on these boards, who would you rather govern, Oddball or someone like High Gravity? (I chose High Gravity because he has shown himself to be a versatile thinker)

Solid post. Both sides have refused to compromise on several issues that they should have, for years now. Our government has become completely dysfunctional. We have no real leadership from either side. No one dares presenting real solutions because that would involve the risk of failure. So instead, we have people who get re-elected by pandering to the ignorance and hatred of the oddballs of the world.
We need a change. Or we can all move to Belize and enjoy the surf! Well, maybe not all of us...

 

[Oddball]

Ayn Rand,,,who bitched and moaned about government programs,,,and then used them when she needed them. Now there's a person who had convictions and then betrayed those convictions. Good job, Oddball

Not even a good try at deflection.

Rand's observation viz. compromise is dead on and there's nothing you can say to refute it.

BTW, she paid into those programs, by force, therefore was entitled to recoup that which was expropriated from her.

 

[kiwiman127]

They should blow each other.

Impossible.... they are all impotent.

Damn right they are impotent, that's why they can't get "it" done. It takes two, to get "it" done.

 

[kiwiman127]

Ayn Rand,,,who bitched and moaned about government programs,,,and then used them when she needed them. Now there's a person who had convictions and then betrayed those convictions. Good job, Oddball

Not even a good try at deflection.

Rand's observation viz. compromise is dead on and there's nothing you can say to refute it.

Oh brother. Look around you. If the business world ran the way you wanted government run, they would all be failures. One train of thought thinking leads to failure.

 

[IndependntLogic]

Ayn Rand,,,who bitched and moaned about government programs,,,and then used them when she needed them. Now there's a person who had convictions and then betrayed those convictions. Good job, Oddball

Not even a good try at deflection.

Rand's observation viz. compromise is dead on and there's nothing you can say to refute it.

Oh brother. Look around you. If the business world ran the way you wanted government run, they would all be failures. One train of thought thinking leads to failure.

Seriously dude. I usually give Oddball one chance to at least attempt an intelligent post before blowing him off for the reaminder of threads. Seriously, it's like arguing with some homeless whackjob on the street. Why bother?

 

[Oddball]

Ayn Rand,,,who bitched and moaned about government programs,,,and then used them when she needed them. Now there's a person who had convictions and then betrayed those convictions. Good job, Oddball

Not even a good try at deflection.

Rand's observation viz. compromise is dead on and there's nothing you can say to refute it.

Oh brother. Look around you. If the business world ran the way you wanted government run, they would all be failures. One train of thought thinking leads to failure.

Another really shitty attempt at a comparison that doesn't compare.

No business can force anyone to use their product.

 

[The Infidel]

They should blow each other.

Impossible.... they are all impotent.

Damn right they are impotent, that's why they can't get "it" done. It takes two, to get "it" done.

Problem is.... the Dems keep trying to stick it in the wrong hole

 

[Oddball]

Impossible.... they are all impotent.

Damn right they are impotent, that's why they can't get "it" done. It takes two, to get "it" done.

Problem is.... the Dems keep trying to stick it in the wrong hole

It ain't just the dems.

Just about any time that the remocrats and depublicans "get it done", the only people that get "done" are the proles.

 

[The Infidel]

Damn right they are impotent, that's why they can't get "it" done. It takes two, to get "it" done.

Problem is.... the Dems keep trying to stick it in the wrong hole

It ain't just the dems.

Just about any time that the remocrats and depublicans "get it done", the only people that get "done" are the proles.

I feel like that poor banana at times

Banana rape is a terrible crime and should never be allowed.

 

[Vidi]

Republicans have been capitulating to and appeasing progressive socialists since at least the days of FDR, and what has it got us?....Two giant Ponzi schemes (Medicare and Social Security) about to go broke, $15 trillion in right-now debt with over $50 trillion in unfunded promises to pay, military personnel in over 130 nations, gubmint schools that suck, a completely out-of-control police/nanny/snoop state, drug infested inner cities that are basically demilitarized zones, a bankrupt social welfare state, a prison-industrial complex that rivals communist China, on and on and on....And then we get brain dead twirp politicians who try and tell us the only reason that none of that crap is working is because it needs their "reforms" to fix it.

Clearly, compromising with statists has got us exactly nowhere....The less those asswipes, from both parties, do as "favors" to America or to reputedly solve our problems, the better.

It got you the rise to the most powerful nation on Earth.

Youd rather take it back to a 19th century backwater nation?

PROGRESSIVE ERA! STOP DODGING!

 

[Oddball]

Bullshit.

The innovation and mechanization of the Industrial Revolution brought that about, not any social engineering and tinkering by progressive socialist wankers.

 

[kiwiman127]

Impossible.... they are all impotent.

Damn right they are impotent, that's why they can't get "it" done. It takes two, to get "it" done.

Problem is.... the Dems keep trying to stick it in the wrong hole

Wrong hole? Oh, you mean da

 

[Vidi]

Bullshit.

The innovation and mechanization of the Industrial Revolution brought that about, not any social engineering and tinkering by progressive socialist wankers.

absolutely incorrect.

Without the "social engineering" as you put it. Workers would have been little more than fuedal servants working in the factories for a pittance without the income to expand beyond city tenament living. It gave them the money to purchase homes and fill them with products, thus making the industrialists richer. ( A good thing )

Its only when the workers moved into the middle class that true American consumerism was born. Its on the backs of that consumerism that America rose to economic power.

You can disagree all you want, but it doesnt matter how many toasters a factory produces, if theres no one to purchase the toasters, the factory closes.

 

[Oddball]

No, it's absolutely correct.

Unlike you, I don't worship at the altar of economic meddlers, social engineers and other do-gooders.

I -correctly- hold that the greatness of America has come from its ordinary, highly inventive and infinitely flexible people and not from on high via its petty politicians and parasitic bureaucrats.

But feel free to venerate your graven images....Freedom of religion and all that.

 

[kiwiman127]

No, it's absolutely correct.

Unlike you, I don't worship at the altar of economic meddlers, social engineers and other do-gooders.

I -correctly- hold that the greatness of America has come from its ordinary, highly inventive and infinitely flexible people and not from on high via its petty politicians and parasitic bureaucrats.

But feel free to venerate your graven images....Freedom of religion and all that.

 

[ThinkCritically]

It amazes me that so many people say no. If that's you're answer, please let me know how you would expect anything to ever get done?

They better compromise if they are to retain their duopoly power. Its gotten so bad recently though, that we might see a third party in the next few decades