“In a perfect world, "democracy" means that ultimately the greatest good for the most people, is the goal and the result.Pragmatically, that means that the needs and wants of one faction are weighed against the needs and wants of the other faction(s), and a "compromise" that results in the greatest good is struck.Essentially, that result ends up in "governing from the middle". In that all factions get SOME benefit, and in aggregate, the benefit accrues to the largest possible number.Politics is the process of finding the point where that balance is met. In today's USA political world, the right abandons all pretense of finding compromise. Compromise is the opposite of "succeed".Also in today's USA political world, the right abandons all pretense of actual competency in the subject matter...their only goal is to "win" the political process, whatever "win" means in that context. They have reduced it to a simple sports game, without the usual athletic prowess normally associated with sports.” – Lexicon, HP, 9/09
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