"The left wants single payer healthcare. At the end of the day they all support Obamacare. The left supported civil unions before full marriage equality was politically viable. The left supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants but would probably get behind an immigration reform bill that didn't include that. Meanwhile I can't think of any comparable examples on the right, at least not since the very early days of the Bush Administration. So yeah... the left does seem way more willing to accept compromise positions than the right, at least in recent history." - Eric P