Eulogy on build back better

 So, someone on a website I go to had the idea of eulogizing build back better, since joe manchin killed it, and I decided to break radio silence to do a small euology on it.

Build Back Better always sucked. Biden was a compromise candidate who campaigned on the idea that he could get crap done and his proposals were realistic and he knew how to work across the aisle in Washington. However, Biden was naive in this notion. The right had no interest in compromise, and even democrats like Manchin kept watering the bill down, and watering it down, and watering it down some more. So Build Back Better was a compromise of a compromise, of a compromise. And then Manchin killed it, because he never wanted it in the first place. 

Let this be a lesson to all who seem to circlejerk about compromise as a way of life when campaigning. I'm sick of hearing about it. Of course washington has to compromise to get anything done, but the democrats have fallen in this trap of virtue signalling about it as if it's a good thing in and of itself. In the process, they stand for nothing, then fail to pass whatever they claim to stand for. So nothing gets done, and nothing gets passed. Compromise is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. Let this failure of a bill be a lesson to that.