CNN Poll: Likability helps Obama survive brutal weEK

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9. This is also why we never see any vision stuff from that cohort; you know, solution ideas & timeline

s, and steps toward incremental levels of progress, tasking, specified alternatives and decision trees . . . none of that kind of stuff, because it would fracture the negative base that is being built.

That base is pretending that they have NO differences on anything & they are all fully united behind the goal to destroy PO and the truth is that they do have fundamental differences that will cost them dearly, perhaps even terminally, were they to succeed in what they putatively desire: destruction of "the system". All of that may, in fact, be necessary, but it's dishonest not to admit those differences and their possible destructive effects up front, because if (rhetorical) you don't, you're only re-iterating the very thing that you claim to be fighting and taking advantage of the less empowered in the process.