Mr. Kent asked me to delete this post — which only concerned his run for the San Carlos, California, City Council in 2020 — for personal reasons.
Given that my opinion about his candidacy for local office is now irrelevant, I’ve decided to accommodate his request.
He’s oversimplifying the issue as are you.
“Somewhere in between lies the truth.”
LOL! As a general rule that’s impossible to avoid unless one is always willing to write tomes about issues.
So, what things do you believe I oversimplified? I’m curious.
p.s. — I enjoyed your tagline…but one of the first lessons I learned in politics many years ago is that one cannot always use “splitting the difference” as a way of making political decisions. Why? Because as soon as, say, I recognize my colleagues always “split the difference” I’ll just go more extreme in what I say I want, let them split the difference with me…and end up much, much closer to where I really wanted to be all along.
Which is an illustration of a good rule of politics: no approach works in all situations and circumstances :).