Never fight! You could lose! And if you lose, others could, too! Be afraid, be VERY afraid. It is safer to do nothing, not draw any attention to yourselves, compromise before any conflict occurs, and be sure to lose with no fanfare because doing so couldn't possibly build momentum for the other side...
A political strategy only 21st century Democrats could love.
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This is superb, Alan, but the "only" in the last sentence is quite wrong. Rosa Luxemburg speaks, some 112 years ago:
But if we take the position that we w to bring to fruition the interest of the proletariat, then it is impossible to make statements such as those that Heine has recently made to the effect that we can also make concessions on the question of militarism; it is impossible to make statements such as those of Konrad Schmidt to the central committee of the socialist majority in the bourgeois parliament, impossible to say, as Bernstein has, that once we take over command of the ship, even then we will not be in a position to do away with capitalism. When I read that, I said to myself: what a stroke of luck that the French socialist workers weren't that bright in 1871, for then they would have said: "Children, let's go to bed, our hour has not yet struck, production is not yet sufficiently concentrated for us to maintain control of the ship." But then, instead of a moving drama, instead of a heroic struggle, we would have seen a different scenario, for then the workers would not have behaved like heroes, but like old women.
Speeches to Stuttgart Congress: October 3 & 4, 1898
Carrol
P.S. Name taken by an NUC caucus, 1970: Solidarity is not a Sentiment.