What I truly mean to say, is that we need to grow our virtue in place. Which means if we have difficult, rocky ground that has to be heavily worked in order to grow it, that is still better than trying to grow it in sizzling hot cast iron. The alternative is to let the possible venues both be.
Well, except for the fact that it's not a field, but a collection of men sent to represent citizens (or states).
You can't easily switch out your ground (it involves buying, selling and moving applicable equipment [as well as losing what work and emotional investment the land had]) — but you can, and do, with stewards: those commissioned to do your will are ultimately accountable to you.
I agree that virtue needs to be grown; I disagree that the party
deserves the sort of loyalty you're implicitly relying upon to argue that the soil needs heavily worked.