Slop.

Democracy was never in itself "about" compromise, it was offered in a diminished form as a compromise to the working class, but democracy in itself is about majoritarian rule and nothing else, which may result in compromises to produce majorities but does not necessarily need to.

When the owner of a copper wire factory owner wants to dump industrial waste in a river and the people downstream do not want to die, what reason do those people have to compromise with a sicko who treats their lives as a way to socially offload manufacturing costs? But then if the representative of those people gets money from the factory owner and merely puts a cap on the amount of waste that can be dumped in the river but still lets it happen, "pushover" is too kind a word for what he is, and what has transpired has nothing to do with democracy except in the sense that knives have something to do with a stabbing victim.