Originally Posted by
Peace&Freedom
That's not exactly majoring in the majors. As they say, stats are for losers. What's the difference between a crushed beetle, and a crushed cockroach, in the crushed scheme of things? Aside from projecting with counter-certainty that, if losing, Rand's stats would not be much different from Ron's, the big picture would be that Rand lost, or we got crushed again, and we thereby got nothing electorally from taking the pragmatic approach.
If the pragmatists want to hold a position that is unfalsifiable (i.e., that we all follow that path no matter what actually happens), then it is just another belief system or dogma, not the "superior approach." I'm suggesting our progress should be truth and bottom-line driven, not compromise and diss-the-purists driven. Pragmatism should be pursued at the service of principle, not instead of the disparagement of principle. If Rand can't win, it will show the compromise tactics FAILED, period, and its advocates should take responsibility for that outcome, not scapegoat the purists.
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