text: I want to agree with you but I'm beginning to think that the high road isn't working anymore. You can't walk into a streetlight expecting to play by the Marquess of Queensbury rules.
  
  I'm afraid we're all going to have to get dirty to get through the next few years.
  
  Barbarians don't respond to reason. They don't even want to accept the facts. There really is only one way to deal with opposition like this.