If you decide I am your enemy....

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42. what if you declare that you are my friend

And yet we always get together at MY house where you eat my food and hog the remote? So after a few years of this, I decide to be a little more assertive. I ask for the remote and that you buy some of the snacks.

Then instead of stepping back and considering ways that you could be a better friend, you get all defensive and go on the attack and then say "well, if you have decided that I am an enemy, then there's nothing I can do about it."

Maybe there is. maybe there isn't.

Perhaps instead of saying "we ARE your allies" it would be better to say "we WANT to be your allies".

Let's be honest from the start. First, admit that we do not agree 100%. In an alliance between A and B, if it is an alliance of EQUALS, that means that A is not going to rubber stamp support everything B wants to do and vice versa. If we are allies though, there should be vast swaths of common ground. Perhaps we could be trying to find it.

Here, along with some other verbiage, is a list of the demands of BLM

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/07/supplemental-two-approaches-after.html