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Ayn Rand’s advice on compromise
As we get ever closer to the new Obama administration and a Democrat-controlled congress, we’re being told that we all need to come together and unite behind our new president. And that’s a noble goal for which we should strive.
But at the same time, Conservatives, Libertarians and Republicans are taking time to look at how they were outflanked by the vacuous HopeyMcChange sideshow and what can be done to prevent similar lapses in the future. Pundits from all along the political spectrum are offering differing advice on what should happen next for the GOP. And grassroots organizations like Top Conservatives On Twitter have sprung up to encourage a return to true conservatism rather than a watering down or outright abandonment of basic principles.
With that in mind, I saw a quote from author Ayn Rand posted today by one of my Twitter buddies, jbooth83, regarding the nature of compromise.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Galt’s Speech, For the New Intellectual
It really got me thinking. So I Googled some of her other quotes and found a few that seemed like Rand must have been presaging the Obama campaign in a crystal ball.
Contrary to the fanatical belief of its advocates, compromise [on basic principles] does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to be all things to all men, end up by not being anything to anyone. And more: the partial victory of an unjust claim, encourages the claimant to try further; the partial defeat of a just claim, discourages and paralyzes the victim.
“The Cashing-In: The Student ‘Rebellion’”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
The three rules listed below are by no means exhaustive; they are merely the first leads to the understanding of a vast subject.
- In any conflict between two men (or two groups) who hold the same basic principles, it is the more consistent one who wins.
- In any collaboration between two men (or two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins.
- When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side.
“The Anatomy of Compromise”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
I don’t pretend to have the answers as to what Libertarians and Republicans can do to reclaim the imagination of American voters. But I do know that abandoning conservative beliefs in a vain attempt to win popularity hasn’t worked for President Bush or John McCain.
That first quote from John Galt’s speech in Ayn Rand’s For the New Intellectual was part of a larger passage that not only applies to the sad state of class warfare in America, but also the creeping dhimmitude in the face of global Islamofascism. Appeasement is poison, regardless of the where it’s administered.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube…When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
