People, Don't Turn On Senate Democrats

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8. Honestly, what's the use?

People have beliefs, confidence in what they believe in. Take for example, the belief that cutting an offenders hand off will stop theft. It doesn't work. In places where that punishment exists there are still thieves and one-handed people. There are signs in parks telling visitors not to approach animals, yet the urge to pet fuzzy cows is too strong. It does matter what anyone believes.
They can spin stories of all sorts, some of how this was a dismal failure, some of how this was the best outcome. Good luck getting a great many people to have any confidence in what they hear now. On a visit to Honolulu we were told that sometimes when someone jumps of the top of the mountain the wind blows them right back up to where they were. Some of us don't need a sign or a warning not to jump off that mountain. We know it will be the last poor decision we ever made - a very low confidence belief