Pro tip: politicians are defined and loved based on who their enemies are. It’s beneficial to ponder from time to time whether what one does makes the other side exceedingly happy because they’ll win, and whether one should continue. Or not. Losing always works too. Every time.
The trick is making one’s adversary believe one is choosing to fall directly into traps over and over and over and over again.
The hardest part is trying not to laugh while they hurl themselves into the grinder yet again...
You can only laugh once they’ve committed. So much.
The hardest part is trying not to laugh while they hurl themselves into the grinder yet again...
You can only laugh once they’ve committed. So much.
(Moderates on the one side secretly want to high five extreme views opposite because they know if those views — even if they look tired, beaten, & oh so weary — live through at least one more cycle so they can sabotage them one more time. They goad them, trying to keep them awake
(It doesn’t matter if you warn them what’s actually happening either. They can’t help it. They’ll sprint headlong into yet another razor wire fence and bleed out just a little bit more... they think they’re choosing to do it too. The other side just tries not to laugh.)
I mean one side watches the other crashing through razor wire so many times — losing more life each time — that they start to feel sorry for them.
They’ll give them a little boost and a hand up to their feet, just to keep them alive long enough to doom their allies once more.
They’ll give them a little boost and a hand up to their feet, just to keep them alive long enough to doom their allies once more.
(When you start to see the consolation you know it’s totally over. “Oh no are you ok? We’re sorry. So sorry. Here let us help you up. Please stay alive long enough to doom all your friends agai... uh, I mean because you are valued in general.. etc etc”)
(That strategy happens more often than you might think. It’s diabolical. Pity is the final insult. Given after it’s too late to matter, but not so late that one loses the perfect foil to define one’s self. Watch for it.)
