Why Republicans Will Not and Democrats Can Not COMPROMISE

Let’s start with two compromises:

Compromise one, an embryo is not considered a fetus until the end of its eighth week. So for the first eight weeks, we permit abortions. After the end of the eighth week, it’s too late, abortions will not be permitted.

Compromise two, no gay marriage. Instead we have Gay Matrimony, of course with gay matrimony will come all the benefits and legal rights given to straight marriages.

Problem solved, right? No more dead fetus’s and the sanctity of marriage is now safe.

My guess is no, these problems are all or nothing for the devote Christians among us. The Church will not compromise on these issues. Therefore, its at times blind and unquestioning followers will not compromise either, scriptures say they can’t. The Church preaches that one is murder and the other is immoral. Both issues also have something in common to the Church; they have to do with procreation, making more babies. More babies equals more followers. As with its stand against birth control, anything that stops procreation is bad. Destroyed embryos don’t make babies, Gays don’t make babies.

Let’s hear the Church preach strongly against in-vitro fertilization, it kills hundreds of thousands of embryos a year. No, in-vitro fertilization makes babies. The Church knows as its birth rates fall and other faiths birth rates rise, they lose power in the world. Nations come and nations go but the religious faiths of the world have been fighting for power in the world for thousands of years. Fewer followers equals less power. What allows the religious faiths to steer its followers is their scriptures. Each scripture has the ability to be manipulated into saying what is in that faiths best interest.

The Church of the south in Lincoln’s day used the scripture to convince its followers slavery was right and justified. The Civil War was not just fought over the Constitution, for many it was fought over the religious belief that God made the white man to be superior to the black man. Lincoln knew that the Civil War was also religious in nature and the scriptures had been interpreted and twisted in many ways.

Those of us who are Christians and raised to follow without question, may need to rethink this blind devotion to the Church. In the history of the Church many mistakes have been made and then allowed by blind devotion. Blind devotion to God is good but God does not run the Church, man does.

This divide in America will not go away because the Church and religious right have decided to compromise. If you listen to the rhetoric coming from the Church today they feel stronger than ever. It is not in them to compromise on these issues, it will not happen!

The important thing to keep in mind is the religious right is not the majority of Americans. Though they are virtually all Republicans, and more important they all vote. The only way for Democrats to win this battle is to get the rest of America to VOTE! Democrats must give up on compromise and work on getting the rest of America in the game. If they find the right candidate with the right message, this all goes away; compromise equals weakness at this point. When backed into a corner, an animal doesn’t look for compromise ("I’ll let you eat my legs if you let me go") it fights for its life. When Republicans have no reason or need to compromise and Democrats keep looking for things to compromise on, the Democrats are going to get steam rolled.

Compromise happens only when both sides are of equal power. Compromise is not necessary when you have the majority of power and it’s just a nicer word for surrender when you are without power. Now is the time for Democrats to fight for their lives. Like the animal in the corner, they must fight for their life until something comes along to change the balance of power, like a distraction, a bigger predator or darkness. Democrats need the right candidate with the right message to swing into this corner and help them fight their way out of it. This candidate can not focus on the Democratic base; this candidate must focus on the majority of Americans who did not vote. With out those Americans it’s over. The right candidate, right message, means the candidate who manages to get the disillusioned masses off their butts and to the ballot box.

Democrats need to wake up, and realize preaching to the choir is not working. They seem weak, without a message, without a leader. They must find a message for the masses, find a leader for the masses and until then fight like their life depends on it. Compromise at this point will only lead to the death of the Democratic Party.