2020, the election campaigns have begun

[Black Aeronaut]

Because we don't think the things we want are unreasonable...

• Fair wages
  
• Funding for community college up to the associate level
  
• Reformed immigration - such as offering the deportation of people that have overstayed their visas in exchange for a legitimate path to citizenship.
  
• Actually treating people humanely, even if they are not US Citizens, instead of damn-near committing war crimes.  (And no, you do not have to be at war to commit crimes against humanity.  By all rights, there should be several people heading off to The Hague.)
  
• A universal healthcare system (Which, by the way, will probably be LESS EXPENSIVE than what we have now - a fact that many Republicans tend to gloss over.)
  
• Equal rights for LGBTQ peoples
  
• Ending needless trade wars
  
• Fixing our most recent fuck-up pertaining to Syria
  
• Reversing the current administration's damage to environmental protection (No amount of pandering is going to save the coal industry.  It's been on the way out since the 80's when natural gas started to become a viable alternative.)
  

None of these things are unreasonable, I think.

Republicans, on the other hand...

• Pander to white supremacists using dog whistle tactics
  
• Pander to incels and anti-feminists by removing women's reproductive rights
  
• Seek to further gerrymander voting districts in an effort to consolidate power
  
• Remove programs that promote education and pander to for-profit education (who can pick and choose who can attend their schools by sheer dint of choosing where to set up shop)
  
• Would rather ignore the mental health problems we have, even though doing something about it JUST MIGHT cut down on the mass shooting that are driving the Democrats up the fucking walls
  

Sure, there are a few extremist voices out there among the Democrats, but the Republicans only have themselves to blame by refusing to compromise early on when the demands were so much less than what they are now.  For example, gun ownership.  There've been so many mass shootings that the movement to abolish the Second Amendment is actually picking up momentum.  And the more the Republican Party panders to the NRA, the worse this is going to get.

So, do you think the Republicans should compromise now?  Or wait until the Democrats have the supermajority they need to knock down the econd Amendment?