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Pete's avatar

Do you think you could examine the dangers of compromise in regard to modern political discourse? I recently noticed certain supposed "conservative" personalities (grifters, in my opinion) who seemed to espouse the idea that might makes right, and "what does it matter if you stand for your principles if you lose doing it?" They don't seem to realize the end is the same. Either we lose by maintaining our integrity, or we lose by compromising little by little, until the rest of the world can't tell us and our opponents apart.

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Keith Cook's avatar

Let's assume that global warming is real, that it is significant enough that all humans should be concerned about it because the predictions of melting icecaps and a 10-20 ft rise in the ocean levels seem accurate (I'm trying not to laugh as I write this). What would an appropriate response from the U.S. government be?

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