2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie is willing to compromise, too...WHEN IT'S WORTH IT.
If he wasn't, he wouldn't have gotten dozens of progressive measures passed as amendments to other bills over the years.
To make compromise worth it, you have to start with a strong, principled undiluted ORIGINAL proposal, which you then mobilize mass public support for. Then, if you must, you compromise...but you compromise from strength, and with a clear commitment to push hard for what you didn't get in the original at the earliest possible opportunity.
IF you START by proposing a half measure, you'll get less than half. You usually get a quarter-measure at best.
You can't get anything done at all by announcing at the start that you'll settle for next to nothing.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)floriduck
(2,262 posts)they negotiate with. What we have seen so frequently is people with similar beliefs negotiating from the middle and ending up where the GOP benefits. In other words, moderate to right wing or conservative to right wing. A progressive to right wing hasn't come into play for way too damn long.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)floriduck
(2,262 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,961 posts)...but he may not wish to highlight working "with the establishment" to get things done. It's a strength though...
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Finding common ground, even with people on the other side.