Maybe. But we’re still at a point of needing the Right to do the right thing and come to the table in the first place.

Having to be forced to show responsibility does not make anyone look like the “adult in the room". Again, after 30+ years of gaslighting, we’re past the notion of the far Right and the gun industry coming out of this smelling like a rose. They’ve burnt way too much karma for that.

The best they can hope for is some redemption of their image. And they’re going to have to suck it up and earn it. Redemption is not a door prize.

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I hear a lot of the same thinking from many Right leaning and conservatives about the Left. That’s not been my experience. Most Democrats are left leaning centrists. They’re not the nut jobs conservative media (Fox News) paints them as. The Left certainly has their fringe elements, just as the Right has but they’re not the majority regardless of how loudly they squawk on the internet in certain rabbit holes.

Beware the ravings of hysterics and all that. Gotta keep things in perspective.

Even if that policy is pushed, it’s still worthy of discussion, if for no other reason than to have a chance to lay out in fair, logical, reasonable terms why it’s a bad idea. And to make a fair, reasonable, and just counter proposal/offer.

That’s how negotiation works. It’s not ‘all or nothing’ — that strategy, more often than not, results in a whole lot of nothing. You want to work toward as many people winning as possible and as few people losing as possible. That’s the goal, and that’s the best, most advantageous outcome possible overall.

But they’ve got to come to the table, not sulk in a corner like a toddler mad because his tantrum was ignored.

They’re not going to look like the adult in the room no matter what they do. They’ve played the spoiled brat routine far too hard and far too long to be given that much credit.