Surrendering Slowly Is Not Fighting

“This is the same phenomenon which caused one wit to observe that if the liberals in our Congress were to introduce a bill to burn down the Capitol, the conservatives would counter with a bill to phase the project in over the course of three years. When one group wants to drive us over a cliff at eighty miles an hour, it is hardly a pragmatic response to insist on fifty miles an hour. This is why ‘pragmatic’ temporizers of all ages have never liked the discovery that pragmatism can be convicted by its own standard — it does not work. Nothing ruins a thriving party of consensus like being hosed down with the ice cold water of truth. And nothing makes the builders of consensus more unhappy” (For Kirk and Covenant, p. 170).