We should seek the BEST BRIGHTEST MOST CAPABLE MOST HONORABLE. They are few and far between. See what you get when you don't?

When your standards are lowered you attract the worst and the dullest and the least capable and the least honorable (dishonorable). For those who adamantly refuse to compromise and rigidly hold to their standards, why did they cave this time? Why did they lower their standards to nothing at all or minus nothing?