Transgender

So, the problem you have with this pitchfork, and I'll accept the fallacy for the purpose of exercise, is that it isn't happening in a vacuum. We actually have the receipts for exactly what you outline.

Voter were told “Its our only chance at winning.” They were being asked by Democrats to compromise and vote for genocide. And the Democrats lost in spectacular fashion.

Acting like you are trying to make the best of an imperfect system, when what you are really doing is creating the permission structure for it to get continuously worse: this approach to electoralism loses elections.

We have the receipts. We don't need to run the experiment again. We know, unequivocally, that if we ask people to compromise on something that they know is deeply immoral, we will lose.

Its not only that its deeply immoral: Its also bad strategy. Compromising on issue like trans rights, the march towards fascism, genocide: This loses you elections. You are asking someone to become a worse, lessor person, to adopt a strategy that won't even win. And this is the crux of it.

Democrats as politicians can-not continue to ask their voters to expect less of them. Not only because the things their asking for are deeply immoral, but in doing so, they've adopted a strategy which will lose them their race.

Its less important to me that its less strategic than it is less immoral. But this rotten brain worm that "compromise" will get you what you want; that if we can just convince people if they vote "strategic" enough, eventually, maybe after decades of voting, they'll get what they need to be considered human (gay marriage, civil rights, trans rights, women rights, social safety nets, minimum wage, on and on; almost none of the progressive policies we've ever accomplished have been achieved through bipartisan compromise).

Compromise in this context is the second stroke of the ratchet mechanism that has locked America into a frog march towards fascism. Compromise is the song of Martin Luther Kings "white moderate"; the greater obstacle than those directly advocating towards a negative peace, rather than accepting the tension of a positive peace that fosters justice.

That compromise is what you advocate for.

I reject it.