This is a fair response and one that lifts from "disruption" like thinking processes. I've made a personal decision however to retreat from "realpolitik" like

This is a fair response and one that lifts from "disruption" like thinking processes. I've made a personal decision however to retreat from "realpolitik" like political analyses because it requires me to play mind games about the probable intentions of the decision maker, their constraints, and the possible outcomes of the decision they made. Holding people to a set of normative values that I believe to be meaningful has been a more useful (if more blunt) meta-construct* * this conversation has me wondering if it might be time to revisit that position