Look, I suck. I get that.

[Dragonfli]

8. If you suck Manny (to some) it is only because the medicine required for a serious illness

very often is not only bitter but quite painful.

When the body becomes very ill, the conscious part of the body will try to rationalize any way it can how the medicine is bad, even worse than the disease and should be shunned, avoided, and even hated. The mind prefers to tell itself sweet lies such as "I am not really that ill" or "I am getting better without it". The mind can even convince you that the hope placebo you purchased online appears to be fighting the disease even though it is actually enabling the disease by replacing the true remedy that is so awful, you just don't want any part of it anymore.

In this case, the medicine needed to cure the madness in Washington is truth and a coalition to act on that truth. You speak the truth that placebo takers don't want any part of precisely because it is bitter, it is painful, and makes one nauseous to embrace and take the steps needed to cure the disease.

This country will not be healed by a placebo and carefully built denial of how deep the illness has reached and how much it has metastasized. Only the true remedy MAY possibly cure us, and that begins with truth and gazing into the true abyss of the reality we need to change if we are to survive.

Without the medicine we will surely die, even with it, it may already be too late and we may still die.

..but Manny, even if we might die, shouldn't we at least die trying to survive, even if the process is painful for the collective patient?

If you dare STFU, then surely I will have to make a trip to Mass. to place by steel toed work boot directly up your ass!! We need all the medicine vendors we can find....