Compromise

Compromise is one of the great plagues in America today. It's everywhere. Principles are compromised, values are compromised, morals are compromised.

Now don't get me wrong, compromise can be a very good thing, but not when it's dealing with morality or principle. Here's the problem.

When you're compromising your morality, you're compromising with the devil. The devil does not compromise. He pretends to though. Let us imagine for a moment that there is a mountain, and that this mountain is your morality. You're standing on the very top of it refusing to go any lower, and the devil is at the bottom calling you, asking you to come down just a little and talk to him. You refuse, and so he does what the devil does. He comes up to you. Now in coming up to you he is not raising his moral standards. No, he is too evil to raise them at all. So him coming up to you is all a ruse conceived for the sole purpose of leading you down the mountain and away from your standards and morality. Now it might not be the devil himself that comes up to you. He might come by way of an ambassador in the form of a friend of yours whose morality has already been compromised. And this ambassador will come right up to almost the top of the mountain. We're talking withing feet, and inches if he's clever enough. And he will say so gently and innocently, "Hey friend, it must get lonely up there all by yourself. Why don't you come down just a little bit to here with me? No? Well hey, I came all the way up this mountain just to see you. The least you can do is come down a couple of feet to see me. Ok, look. I'll come up to within 2 inches of where you are, and at the same moment, I'll step up an inch, and you'll step down one. We'll be together for a while." And so it starts. The devil is a very patient being. If it takes him a lifetime, he will lead you one inch at a time down even a mountain the size of Everest. One compromised inch is never okay, because the devil's standard moves. He is not rooted in principle. So when he tells you that he's okay, and a nice guy, and has come all this way up so he must be a good guy, know that he's lying. As soon as you step down, he will step down as well and invite you to join him once again. And if you move up, he will follow you. He's relentless.

The same applies to America's government. Those fighting for freedom were once so strong. They stood on the top never moving. Then they started to give things away, and started to move down the mountain of freedom, liberty, and justice. Things like the right to work were given away by way of labor laws. Then came educational reform, the government funded schools, government owned land, and the growing control of the people by the government. And then welfare, gun control, and anti discrimination laws along with new regulations, requirements, and taxes. And those ambassadors of the devil just keep moving down. They might not even know that they are ambassadors of the devil, that's how clever he is. But anyone, Republican or Democrat, who gives away the freedoms of the American people is working for the devil, because captivity is a thing of the devil. And so when people like Mr. Obama complain about Republicans such as Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul not compromising, they're wrong. The freedom fighters and their predecessors have compromised already. Almost to the point of total loss of American freedom. 

Please, America. No more compromise. Stand firm on your principles and never move. Because any more compromised morals or freedoms could result in the loss of your freedoms, and your soul.

Be strong, my friends.

-Dallin