Compromise does not create change

I read Rosemary Colbert's letter of March 3.

I agree with her premise that Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are wrong to say that working across party lines is political treason. But I disagree with the notion that dialogue and compromise are the only way to advance the progress of the nation.

Her supposition that "religious right conservatives" agree with Rush Limbaugh is a misconception. She is wrong to suppose that religious right conservatives don't work across the aisle.

The pro-life conservatives have always worked across the aisle. Year after year, the pro-life movement had been successful in passing a bill outlawing partial birth abortion only to see the majority's beliefs and wants trumped by President Clinton's veto.

It was not dialogue and compromise that brought forth the new law, but a change in the presidency.

Change isn't always achieved through compromise. Often it is the imposition of one will upon another. The Civil War was not caused by a state of mind that opposed bi-partisanship, but as Lincoln said in his second inaugural, "… These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war."

Conservatives are needed to fight the good fight against ideas that value free markets over free peoples and ideologies which corrupt science. Temporal is a condition, not an excuse. Truth cannot compromise.

Mitch Babiarz

Schaumburg