[Skybird]

August, you have two sides, both sides insist they are the only ones being right and thus none is willing to make a compromrise with the other.

What do you do?

Giving them knifes and locking them into a sealed room until only one is left?

And I do not even mention the price to be payed by others for the deadlock of these two absoutely right sides.

your position reminds me of what I often call "detemrination" - but determination regarding how to wage war and how to fight a battle to destroy the enemy.

That is not what a pluralistic or democratic setup is about. And republic or not the USAdefines itself as a democratic setup, and even as the cradle and present lighthouse of modern democracy (whether that is right can be disputed, but that is not the point here).

I agree though on your statement earlier that compromise can lead too far and can lead to being asked always for one tiny little step of more, and more, and then some more. It'S what I call the "creeping approach" of something, I often complained about this regarding Islams' behaviour towards the West and how it wants to make it fall back one little baby step by another. But there are other examples as well - especially when it comes to terms like "social justice" and redistribution of wealth.

However, a political system seeing compromise in general as a weakness, as a defeat, that must be prevented in a war-like stubborness and "detemrination" - such a political system has a problem. It first gets stunned, and then gets eaten up from inside.

That is what is the case currently in the US, as I see it.

Europe's problem is more the erosion by a unified secret choir of politicians replacing public contro,a dn awareness with a secret dictatorship that installs itself by gentle brainwashing, and political correctness at the same time demanding far too much compromises.