Sarah Paine
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Take that only.
That would be more of the blunder.
Dictators don't.
They just double down.
This is the beauty of elections.
I get it.
It's a mess with a multi-party system and with all the crazy politics that come and go with it.
But elections are a moment to reassess.
When the party in power sufficiently screws things up, where people finally go, ooh, this is a mess, the elections...
The party in power isn't reassessing.
The election is reassessing for them.
You know human beings.
We've all met many.
Most human beings don't like to change their mind.
I think it's a terrible mistake.
And that's why I like the argument, as you know, counter-argument structure to try to take some of the sting out of changing our minds.
Because doubling down on bad decisions, it's a mistake, but we human beings do it.
And then if you have a dictator, you're guaranteed.
Putin is not going to back down in Ukraine.
He's going to be going after it from now until doomsday.