14th November 2016, 12:23 PM
ABF works more closely with an actual party than anyone else here. I'd say it is pretty important that he's able to take a few steps back and look at the party externally, because yes, it's in a crisis.
Just look at this in regards to my admittedly undeveloped suggestion: "companies would find ways around it" That's a pretty defeatist attitude to have. Why try if companies would fight it, is that right? And now look where we are, when an entire party rolls over every time someone pushes back. This is not a good strategy, but the democrats are convinced, absolutely convinced, that if they are nice enough, cooperative enough, and concede enough, eventually those who hate them will finally work with them. Every time they fail, they panic but eventually swing right around to that same mind set. "The strategy of bending over backwards can't fail, it can only BE failed. We just didn't give up ENOUGH to them!"
I'm so sick of hearing "we would have done it that way, but we already knew everyone would hate it if we did, so we conceded on points before we even suggested anything". Just TRY to do something daring. Suggest something that'll outrage your opponents for once! Yes, you very likely will still need to concede some things, but at least you didn't show up to the bargaining table with half of the things you wanted already thrown out.
Just look at this in regards to my admittedly undeveloped suggestion: "companies would find ways around it" That's a pretty defeatist attitude to have. Why try if companies would fight it, is that right? And now look where we are, when an entire party rolls over every time someone pushes back. This is not a good strategy, but the democrats are convinced, absolutely convinced, that if they are nice enough, cooperative enough, and concede enough, eventually those who hate them will finally work with them. Every time they fail, they panic but eventually swing right around to that same mind set. "The strategy of bending over backwards can't fail, it can only BE failed. We just didn't give up ENOUGH to them!"
I'm so sick of hearing "we would have done it that way, but we already knew everyone would hate it if we did, so we conceded on points before we even suggested anything". Just TRY to do something daring. Suggest something that'll outrage your opponents for once! Yes, you very likely will still need to concede some things, but at least you didn't show up to the bargaining table with half of the things you wanted already thrown out.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)