Our enemies are ruthless, determined, cunning, and relentless. But, as a group, they’re also dumb as posts. They never think of the second magnitude consequences. The most dramatic recent example was eliminating the filibuster for judicial nominees by Harry Reid
Exactly - we’re slow learners, but when we figure it out, watch out
Yes. The RATs seem to never think beyond the here-and-now. Not even one step. Reid and the filibuster is a great example, and his actions bit them in the butt later on.
At least with us, sometimes we think that making a new rule or law to help us now would be a good idea. Then we go to the next step and think, “Oh they could use that against us sometime.” And we don’t do it.
They operate in a knee-jerk manner.