Politics is never about whether you “trust” someone or if they’re “good” or “bad.” It’s about whether you have leverage over someone and can squeeze them. If you insist someone will never cave, you’re forfeiting your leverage. Don’t even TALK like that, if you want to win.
When you say “Manchin and Sinema will never cave,” you’re giving them cover to never have to cave. You’re sabotaging the leverage that the rest of us are trying to use to force them to cave. You’re helping Manchin and Sinema when you yell defeatist stuff. STOP IT. NOW.
If you truly can’t understand that you’re harming our chances by yelling “they’ll never cave no matter what,” then you don’t belong anywhere near political activism. The rest of us deserve better than your dumb ass screwing up our chances. Shut up and go away for the common good.
You’re the moron who goes to the football game, sits in the front row, and yells “we’re gonna lose no matter what” at the quarterback, distracting him while he’s trying to throw the winning pass, and when it fails because of you, you yell “see I was right!”
Destructively defeatist morons like you need to be ejected from the arena, and not allowed back in until you’ve learned how not to be destructively defeatist moron. And if you just want to get off on yelling angry things without caring if you win, then go straight to hell.
If you truly understand how importing voting rights legislation is, yet you still choose to sabotage our chances by yelling “they’ll never cave no matter what” just so you can get off on the anger and outrage, then you’re a full blown psychopath – and you’re my #1 enemy.
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