[Vince Ferrer]

In order to get what we want from others, we need to negotiate. They can't concede if we don't let them.

I know the urge to be cynical because we have been on the outside for a generation. Its easy to feel that this isn't real, that someone will take it all away again. But that just gives our opponents more power than they have. Get used to winning. Get used to being the leader.

[Piranha]

Very well put. Consider reposting that as a vanity in its own thread.

[V K Lee]

It’s a challenge to get used to something which none of us has ever experienced. How does one actually do that?