I'm not at all clear what the fight in this thread is about, Strick, and who should be compromising with whom.

This is all about electioneering. Presumably it would be better if everyone agreed to stop telling lies and being manipulative and so forth, Hkwever when many of the leading characters and their minders are people who couldn't recognise the truth if it stood up and bit them, that's hardly likely to happen in a hurry. Maybe some day the voters will decide they don't like this kind of game, and it'll stop, because it won't work any more. But not this time around.