today's required reading

[fox]

So the Christian center looks to the Left and looks to the Right, and the Right looks better. The Right at least looks familiar, a landscape it can understand. The Left not only is out of touch with the center, it disrespects the things the center believes. (I have never encountered as much arrogance from Christians as I have from, say, environmentalists. I believe in their cause, but the holier-than-thou attitude has Christians beat all to shit.) The center doesn't necessarily like the Right, but it likes the Left less.

Democrats have a choice. We can wrap our outrage around ourselves and continue to lose, or we can stop being so certain that we have all the answers and everyone else is a dumbass and start listening. And learning. And reaching out. We've been saying, "My way or the highway." And America's response is, "Highway's all yours." Politics is about consensus, and coalition building. We need to learn that again.

-- zoethe, here

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

BUt the thing is that compromise ... is a strategy. It's not a goal, or it shouldn't be.

no, you're exactly right. and even zoethe says so, here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoethe/271110.html?thread=3849990#t3849990).

the goal is to win, because if we aren't winning, the rest is just chatter.