Reply #244: Napoleon used to say "after me, the deluge"

[liberation]

Basically he was trying to make the same argument by black mail as you... where we should ignore the current shenanigans, because there is always a possibility of things being worse.

In modern times, the same tactic has been adopted by business leaders. It is called Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (or FUD for short). Basically, it consists on keeping your customer base, not via the merits of your product (which probably is uncompetitive to begin with), but by making your customers afraid of trying the competitor's solutions... If I think about it, that MO seems to fit to a T the behavior of the DLC-types in the Dem machinery. Their only selling being that the equivalent Republican policy would be so much worse.

Ah, here is to diminished expectations!