>"Not when refusing to compromise is your parties main platform." This seems like a scathing indictment, but the point of a political party is to advance an id

>"Not when refusing to compromise is your parties main platform." This seems like a scathing indictment, but the point of a political party is to advance an ideological agenda. "Compromise" on bureaucratic issues is essential and acceptable, but you rarely hear about that. There are all sorts of issues that Republicans and Democrats refuse to compromise on - isn't that why people have divided themselves along these lines in the first place?