Politics isn't about compromise, it is about governance by the people, for the people, and for the good of all. It is about meeting our civic and social responsibilities to one another with all the integrity one can muster.

Political sleeze, political corruption, political graft, greed, and political extortion--those are all about compromise and the art of the deal.

What we should be demanding is the former. Tolerating sell outs in the name of compromise is what has given us the later.

As to dictatorships, I think Cheney/Bush have nearly succeeded in imposing one here in the US, in Iraq, and Afghanistan.