People will respond more positively to a "we can do much better than this"
> kind of argument than an "everything sucks and is getting worse" one.
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Who says it has to be one or the other? If we aren't astute enough to address positive and negative trends simultaneously, perhaps our ideas have some fundamental problems.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."