Reply #35: For my fellow nerds, I can only paraphrase Paul Muad'Dib [View All]

[TheKentuckian]

The ultimate power over a thing is the ability to destroy that thing.

We have no hand because we cannot destroy the legislation, we must fight to preserve it and that being the case we will sacrifice and compromise anything to maintain it.

In the end we lost as soon as we took on a battle we weren't willing to lose. Our hands are tied from playing to win or any real hardball. The conservatives however are more than willing to blow the whole damn thing to hell and that puts them in the driver's seat to extract as much as we can stomach to allow us to help as many as they will permit.

This will be the pattern we see replay it's self over and over with every effort we attempt.

We will never score any wins in a game we are afraid to lose minus good fortune and big fortunes conspire against any random luck as much as they are against any actual effort.
The biggest problem is too many of us thought we were actually playing on the other team's side of the field, others thought we were in the red zone, and a few had tricked themselves into thinking we were on the one about to score when the reality is we're on our own goalline.

You have to call plays different in the shadow of the goalposts and I don't think enough people on our side get that while others seem to have lost track that we only get four downs to move the ball ten yards or we turn the ball over. Picking up a half a yard is progress, true enough. However, four such efforts leaves you turning the ball over on the two or three and the other side can punch it in with minimal effort.