Compromise is not a sin

My last woot-woot of this political season…

Belief is not fact. And compromise is not a sin.

Most of this political stuff comes down to what a person is willing to believe, based upon their own predilections. It’s complicated, because a person comes to their beliefs over the course of years, so they may not even recognize where it was they turned one way or the other.

For some reason, somewhere in the course of my life, it became sexy to be inflexible.  People confused standing for something with being right about it – because there is no shorter path to egomania than to be right all the time. It’s masturbatory.  The rigid mindset gets interpreted as strength, and strength gets interpreted as sexiness.

The rigid mindset will also not entertain alternate theories, because any deviation from their “norm“ means that you’ve fallen from grace, doomed to hell, stupid, foolish. There is no “compromise” – that word gets equated with sin. And yet, compromise is what we adults do to accept the best solution from a set of choices.

I remember not long ago when the phrase “politically correct” was derided as a bad thing.  To myself, it wasn’t about lying about true feelings, or stifling free speech. It was about being polite. Of course, being polite equates to being soft - the opposite of showing strength - hence not sexy.

Hate and intolerance have become sexy. Think about that for a moment.  Ask yourself these questions:

• Is hate and intolerance good or bad?  I believe they are bad things. What do you think?
• What did your mother teach you about hate and intolerance?
• If you went to Christian church, what did your church teach you about hate and intolerance? What Biblical character used hate and intolerance to deceive mankind?

It is my belief that compromise is not sin, and we need compromise as a nation to be “great again”. Compromise is not a sin – it’s what adults do every day to make it through.