Broder would, I'm sure, have recommended that the Italian Partisans who finally caught Mussolini during WW II should have compromised with him instead of stringing him up on a lamppost. They shouldn't have embarrassed Mussolini that way.
Digby has an excellent post on the subject. Now that the Republicans, dominated by the movement conservatives, are going to get their well-deserved removal from power, for some odd reason Broder and his bipartisans think the Democrats should let the losers share the power the Democrats are gaining.
Right. As if the movement conservatives have any compromise in their bodies. If the Democrats compromise with the defeated conservatives, they will get the same treatment that occurred to so many governments threatened by Communist rebellion got when they tried to compromise with the Communist insurgents. Give the Communists any power at all, and they took over the government. The fools and idiots who compromised with the Communists realized their error from the grave or from reeducation camps.
It is the nature of authoritarians not to compromise. Instead they demand that others compromise with them, then they destroy those who tried to act with honor. Conservatives, Fascists, and Communists are all Authoritarians. They all act the same way, and any effort to compromise with them will give them the tools to destroy those who attempt to conciliate them.
Authoritarians are inherently evil and anti-democratic. We have seen the way Bush acts that democracy is nothing more than a word used in rhetoric when he tries to sound like he is human and conceals his horns and tail. The 1776 American dream of Liberty that is built into that fascinating Enlightenment political document, the American Constitution, is under attack today like never before. The attackers are movement conservatives, a group of people fully as Evil as any other groups of authoritarians in history.
Compromise with Evil is itself Evil.
Is David Broder simply an ignorant fool who is letting the forces of conservatism use his for Evil purposes, or is he himself part of the Evil wave that has caught America up? Either way, he is an Evil man himself.
One thing that Digby wrote that I totally agree with and which needed to be said. Regarding the use of the word "Fascist" to describe the movement conservatives:
*Now that Jonah Goldberg has made the word acceptable for use against liberals, it's back in circulation as far as I'm concerned and I'm using it.There really is not better word for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, John Bolton, Norm Podhoretz and his current master, Rudy Giuliani, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and the other anti-democratic members of their cabal like Rupert Murdoch.
[*] The results of movement conservative policies and behavior, like death, were predictable even though the timing when those results would become known was not.
What Broder and the "bipartisans" want is what is called the Rachet effect. It is a political method of moving America constantly to a right-wing authoritarian corporatist model (which is the definition of Fascism) and never allowing any backsliding towards government support for the American public.
Broder's proposed bipartisanship is the political rachet that moves America away from Liberty and democracy based on the Constitution and the Rule of Law and toward aristocratic and corporate rule.
Paul Rosenberg has an excellent essay on the importance of partisanship and polarization.
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