Tag: Political Compromise

By Sean Pond | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Every generation tells itself the same lie, that compromise keeps the peace, that negotiation is what holds a democracy together. But if you trace it out in hard math instead of soft emotion, you’ll see that every “reasonable middle ground” we’ve chosen has moved this country one step closer to socialism and one step further from the principles our Founding Fathers built this nation on. Let me show you what I mean. The Freedom Scale Picture a number line. Zero means no government. One hundred means total government control, socialism or pure democracy, where rights exist only when the majority allows them. Our Founders placed America around thirty, a balanced, limited government designed to protect liberty, property, a...