# Those on the political Left and Right: Any "deals with the devil" that you'd make? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 23, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122 "2010-10-23T19:56:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122/21 "2010-10-27T16:49:47Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > I’d give away some truly significant ground on economic policy in exchange for universal health care and gay marriage. This. As far as I’m concerned, it makes little difference which party is running the economy. It makes a lot of difference who calls the social policy shots. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122/22 "2010-10-27T22:03:44Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > Would you agree to an offer to ban abortion in exchange for drastically scaling down the U.S military (to where we spend slightly more per capita than Europe does, we’d have enough to defend ourselves from invasion but not enough to be World Police anymore), and using the extra money for social welfare programs (including contraception)? Not the former (since no European country has force projection capability enough to send the a division to Cameroon or a brigade to Somalia or something like that) but the latter yes. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122/23 "2010-10-27T23:56:49Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > As far as I’m concerned, it makes little difference which party is running the economy. It makes a lot of difference who calls the social policy shots. I largely ( not entirely, but largely ) agree. Which is why I vote social policy 90% of the time and consequently why I vote Democrat most of the time, even though I’m not a big fan of either party. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122/24 "2010-10-28T00:20:26Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > However, if there’s one thing the Right has taught us over the past few years, it’s that the Right’s version of “compromise” is “do everything we demand and we’ll \*still \*torpedo anything you try to do”. So yeah, fuck 'em. Exactly. Compromise with someone who has no intention of reciprocating is foolish. “Compromise” with the Right just means caving into them and getting nothing in return. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122/25 "2010-10-28T00:38:33Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I largely ( not entirely, but largely ) agree. Which is why I vote social policy 90% of the time and consequently why I vote Democrat most of the time, even though I’m not a big fan of either party. I’m just the opposite. I don’t see that social policy is a federal matter (one way or the other; they should just not be in it). Prosperity for all comes from the economy. Social policy only affects a few. Of course, there’re a lot of social policies that I’m against, because they start affecting fiscal policy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-on-the-political-left-and-right-any-deals-with-the-devil-that-youd-make/558122.md?page=1)