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(81,220 posts)Mad-Eye Moody repeatedly said - "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!!" They were dealing with the Dark Lord and it was, thankfully, fiction. WE, on the other hand, are dealing with the koch brothers and shel adelson and piles of money higher than the Himalayas. We HAVE TO anticipate. We HAVE TO outthink them. We HAVE TO outwit them. And we can't EVER relax and kick back and assume the problem is now solved and over and done with. Like Lady Macbeth's damned spot, they do NOT go away and disappear, no matter how hard you scrub.
And frankly, wish I didn't have to say or believe this, but I think the Dems need to beef up not only their opposition research but bring on a few devious thinkers. You have to think like the Dark-Siders. Like Section 31 in Star Trek. Bad. Evil. Dark Side definitely. But we HAVE TO know and understand and head off what the bad guys are doing. Try to anticipate their next move. Try to outthink them when we have them on the ropes. Anybody remember how horrible Blackwater was? The very idea was icky. Well, it eventually got stopped - in the "yeah, SUUUUURE" file. Blackwater doesn't exist anymore. They frickin' renamed it. Now it's this shadowy faceless entity called Xe. Or maybe THAT has even changed by now. That was awhile ago. And I haven't kept up closely enough. But that fiend eric prince (who comes out of the ultra-conservative dick devol Amway machine in the upper Midwest - I think he married Mr. Amway's daughter) simply renamed it and the business carried on with impunity. And everybody who only bothered to look around at surface-level figured - "aha! Over! They're gone! Ding dong the witch is dead! We won! We BEAT those bastards! Everybody can relax and go back to sleep now!"
Hey, I'm as Machiavellian as the next guy.