Know “No”

Today I would like to simply share a rather straightforward insight: politicians rarely — if ever — say “No”.

The way normal people can nonetheless identify and recognize a politician’s opposition to an idea is as follows:

The politician will say “Yes” — and commit to this yes in the very far-off, distant future … to some time far past the politician’s own life expectancy (or in any case far beyond the politicians career plans) — this is essentially, for all practical purposes, a “no” (“not in my lifetime”).

In case anyone is in doubt, they can usually quite simply check if any short term goals align with the politician’s purported long-term plans. If the short term goals contradict the long-term plans, then the long-term plans are simply bogus.