Reply #4: Not to get all Christian on you but... [View All]

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Someone else said it another way: "act as doves, but be as clever as serpents."

The doves want to follow a civil, logical, and rational course to hash out the details and get to the bottom of things.

The serpents want to outwit the other side, pull the rug out from underneath their every move, strike while the iron is hot.

If you are a pure dove, and you think that we're going to fix this with an accounting book and slow, careful math, you'll still be doing that math four years from now, in the half hour between when you get home from your second low-wage job and bedtime.

If you are a pure snake, and you think you are going to sneak into the enemy camp and escape with a smoking gun in your hands, four years from now you'll find out that smoking gun is still doing you little good from inside a psychiatric care center.

Be both. Our voice to the people must be loud, but measured.

Or in other words, fast, clever math. Figures that maybe won't stand up to wild speculation, but which paint a telling picture. For example, the maps with black population... those may not be fit for a doctoral thesis, but they get the truth across to the level headed just as well as they do to the hot-blooded. They are well researched enough to stand the smell test, and add a compelling, human side to the story.