Donald Trump just convinced me to vote for Hillary if the nominee

[TheKentuckian]

102. Those who will not or cannot say NO will never have power or influence because those that

will abuse rationality and decency know good and well all the protests and upset of the YES people is impotent and much to do about nothing because in the end they will always "come around" literally no matter what.

It doesn't matter to those taking advantage if folks are depressed and angry as long as they are compliant.

I don't see how these tactics work ever, the ones taking advantage have ZERO motivation to ever change behaviors so the entire game is determined almost completely on how low and insane the TeaPubliKLANS are willing to go and so far there is no end in sight so the room to position chase the evil bastards is vast.

We are being gamed into negotiated surrender to conservative ideology here and the biggest tell is no matter how dangerous, destructive, and flat out delusional the evil, greedy racist fuckers are we have batshit crazy idiots or crooks (you pick which one applies to who) that are supposed to be decent and rational at bare minimum show the opposite by proactively seeking to "meet them in the middle".

Guess what? That is insane because there is no safe warm space in the middle of anywhere and what might give an old school Bircher pump the brakes. Especially when the strategy is to internally pre-compromise in order to facilitate this (and of course to appease our own conservatives who control all the levers and the powerful committees) particularly since it has been proven beyond any reasonable and honest doubt not to work other than to push that Overton window rightward.

When your opening bid is your minimum acceptable result it isn't a negotiation it is capitulation. It is clearly a lie and a con because otherwise it makes no sense in any practical application.

If we refuse to say no then this will continue and keep spiraling out of control resulting in a far deeper bottom.
I get that our brains are geared toward dealing with clear, present, and immediate threats but those are not always the gravest.
It is this exact type of focus and response that is causing us to be really fucking ourselves on climate change.

The most long term dangerous thing we can do is more of what we have been doing because we are both allowing problems to balloon while becoming ever less capable of dealing with them from every perspective from resources to imagination. The range of ideas wanes seemingly by the day.

At BEST this is like building a football team around a punter while also having perennially bad defense with no plan whatsoever on offense. You are essentially depending on the other team to make mistakes and getting a lucky bounce to ever score much less win a game much less any championships.
That I could swallow maybe a little longer and hope for a stroke of luck but still not indefinitely.

The thing now is I can't help that the offense has gone from inept and impotent to actively scoring for the other team and that I can't abide nor can I be motivated by fear into supporting much of what I oppose under better management.