What Politicians Really Mean When They Say ‘Compromise’

“Washington is broken because no one compromises anymore.” “If we cannot find a middle ground, the system is broken.” “This is a compromise any reasonable person can agree with.”  These are just some of the phrases commonly used by people who want government to do something; people who want the government to do more. They feel that Congress passing a record low number of laws and responding to relatively few crises with swift action is a problem. These are the people who want to limit your rights.

Such a scenario emerges anytime the government is asked to do something in response to a crisis. It happened in 1865, when Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus and censored the press. It happened in 1942, when President Roosevelt ordered Japanese-Americans to be detained in internment camps. It happened in 2001, when President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law. Now, it is happening again after the tragic shooting of a LGBT Night Club in Orlando, Florida.

In times of trouble, politicians echo the rallying cry of “coming together” to find a solution to whatever problem is afoot. Often, they make pleas to the reasonable, stating that such new restrictions are necessary and could feasibly prevent a repeat occurrence of similar tragedies.

Generally, their appeals are faulty, their claims are exaggerated, and their solutions misprescribed. What almost always happens is a reduction of Americans’ rights.

What politicians really compromise in times of crises is not their conflicting ideologies, but the sanctity of the Bill of Rights. Due process, the right to bear arms, and freedom of speech mean nothing when something has to be done. War and crisis are the health of the state. Fear is how it expands its power, and danger is how it reduces the individual. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel said it best when he quipped, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste, and what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

In the wake of Orlando, there has been bipartisan support for restrictions on the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. After the U.S. Senate shot down four gun control proposals earlier this week, so-called moderates are still making a push to take away the rights of law abiding Americans.

Related: Republicans, Maybe You Didn’t Hear Us Tell Democrats, “You Aren’t Taking Our Due Process Rights!

“Both bills strip Americans of their rights preemptively, without charge or trial. People on a watch list are presumed guilty until proven innocent,” The Libertarian Republic Editor-in-Chief Keith Farrell noted. “The right scoffed at such a proposal from the left, but at the same time some Republicans (including Donald Trump) were giving lip service to the idea that individuals on a government watch list shouldn’t be able to buy guns.”
Needless to say, the bill’s advocates are trumpeting the familiar tune of the need for compromise. “If we can’t pass this, it truly is a broken system up here,” Senator Lindsey Graham said. It is as if these people are reading from a script.
Republicans and Democrats have colluded together for too long to make Americans less free. Their solutions to America’s most serious problems have done nothing but exacerbate them, and take away the God-given rights of those they took an oath to protect.
Enough compromises — let’s try freedom.

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