Compromise

When you compromise between food and poison, poison always wins.

Modern politicians frequently discuss the need to compromise between their values and the values of the other side of the spectrum, resulting in a lot of “bi-partisan” legislation. But this is a game that has been played by the proponents of totalitarian government, a trick to move the country toward what they want. It’s a trick that has worked very well for big-government advocates in the last couple of decades.

It is pounded into our heads from a young age that when we disagree on something, it is best to find middle ground, and find a solution that will work for both sides. Then, when you complain that you’re right, and the other person is wrong, you are told that each person needs to sacrifice some of what they want to reach a compromise.

This is fine when you’re choosing between two equally good options. But when you’re choosing between right and wrong, good and evil, a compromise is always a victory for evil, a corruption of good.

This is how the modern political system works. We started free and self-reliant. Nearly every new policy introduced is designed to reduce that freedom, and take away our self-reliance. Those who love freedom cry out against such usurpations of personal liberties, but the totalitarians clamor even louder that at least we should compromise. So a middle of the road bill is passed which, instead of moving us from freedom to tyranny, moves us only partly there. The next bill moves us even further away from when we were once free. And so it goes. Nobody introduces bills to kill government programs, and reduce government involvement. All bills are government involvement. So compromising on bills is simply moving toward totalitarianism slowly, but much more surely.

If we want to win our liberty back, we must first stop allowing our politicians to compromise away our freedoms little by little. We must stand for what is right, and not back down another inch. For if a virtuous man compromises his values, he loses his virtue and evil wins.

Any victory for poison is death.