You don't win by taking the high road. You win by retaliating on the low road with such determination that the enemy becomes afraid to try to go lower for fear of how low you'll go in response.
That is deterrence. Which is really the only securer of peace.
You certainly don't win by ostentatiously taking the low road. If you have to take the low road, which I suppose is inevitable, you have to do it in a way that is not readily apparent.
Cheering this guy's death serves no useful purpose, except to alienate moderates.
You can do what is necessary while minding your PR. Gratuitously going as low as you can is generally a recipe for disaster, unless you want to rule by just terror.
While I normally agree that the "moral high ground" shit is how we lose, randomly dancing on this guys grave doesn't really accomplish anything of value.
There is a line between necessary "evil" towards a goal and "evil" for its own sake, which is what grave dancing here is.
Are we though?
And supposing we are, why?
You don't win by taking the high road. You win by retaliating on the low road with such determination that the enemy becomes afraid to try to go lower for fear of how low you'll go in response.
That is deterrence. Which is really the only securer of peace.
You certainly don't win by ostentatiously taking the low road. If you have to take the low road, which I suppose is inevitable, you have to do it in a way that is not readily apparent.
Cheering this guy's death serves no useful purpose, except to alienate moderates.
They go low, you go lower.
They go lower, you go lower still.
This continues until they stop themselves.
"Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy, FEAR of attacking." -Dr Strangelove
You need to make the enemy fear what you will do in response to their instigation, so that they will not instigate.
I didn't know Michelle Obama posted in KiA2
You can do what is necessary while minding your PR. Gratuitously going as low as you can is generally a recipe for disaster, unless you want to rule by just terror.
Be civil or we won't be.
Be courteous or we won't be.
I judge the leftists by their worst because they refuse to condemn their worst.
While I normally agree that the "moral high ground" shit is how we lose, randomly dancing on this guys grave doesn't really accomplish anything of value.
There is a line between necessary "evil" towards a goal and "evil" for its own sake, which is what grave dancing here is.