Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This is fine if it was hindsight for everyone. But it wasn't.
It was only hindsight for a very small minority. A minority that lacks even a minute amount of prescience.

Of course it wasn't, that's why it is a mistake. But it is a defendable mistake. There are other mistakes that are not defendable, but this isn't one of them.