You are right that compromising on principles should never be done. However, it seems to me that some lawmakers—in a laudable effort to maintain ideological purity—tend to turn up their noses at bills that would represent a step in the right direction, simply because they don’t go as far as they really ought to. The reason we have such a great constitutional carry law in Idaho is because we had lawmakers who were willing to get there one step at a time. The key to their success was their willingness to reach full constitutional carry over the course of several sessions, expanding the original law over several sessions, rather than insisting (futilely) on all-or-nothing bills.
As conservatives, we need to learn to hold firmly to our principles while having enough political savvy to play the long game, reaching our lofty goals through incremental wins.
The biggest problem we face is voting out government lifers and other career politicians who grow fat, rich and pensioned as the citizenry goes weary and broke.
May I suggest a link be provided in each Glenneda's Substack to make donating to your campaign easier. And let's all donate to get Glenneda reelected!!!
Amen. We must stand firm on what we know is right.
True. Compromise is not a win.
You are right that compromising on principles should never be done. However, it seems to me that some lawmakers—in a laudable effort to maintain ideological purity—tend to turn up their noses at bills that would represent a step in the right direction, simply because they don’t go as far as they really ought to. The reason we have such a great constitutional carry law in Idaho is because we had lawmakers who were willing to get there one step at a time. The key to their success was their willingness to reach full constitutional carry over the course of several sessions, expanding the original law over several sessions, rather than insisting (futilely) on all-or-nothing bills.
As conservatives, we need to learn to hold firmly to our principles while having enough political savvy to play the long game, reaching our lofty goals through incremental wins.
The biggest problem we face is voting out government lifers and other career politicians who grow fat, rich and pensioned as the citizenry goes weary and broke.
May I suggest a link be provided in each Glenneda's Substack to make donating to your campaign easier. And let's all donate to get Glenneda reelected!!!
We compromised with the faggots in the '90s, and look what it got us....
In a free republic, compromise is always necessary because we are not a society of identically-thinking clones, but . . .
Politicians compromise principle to obtain power . . . whereas
True statesmen compromise power to achieve principle!