Being a good shepherd* would involve a sufficiently deep dive into MAGA Studies to be able to figure out which high-order bits could be flipped. (like pronouns

Being a good shepherd* would involve a sufficiently deep dive into MAGA Studies to be able to figure out which high-order bits could be flipped. (like pronouns switched, over the course of the XX, from coding antisymmetric to coding symmetric relationships?) As a corollary, this probably means establishing a myth of the "Good MAGA" (compare 爱,责,仁,德?) but as long as it be less destructive than the current situation, there is a nonzero possibility to do some nose-holding. (compare Bismarck on Bratwurstspezialitäten) One would have to search one's soul in order to decide if the ends justified the means! [actually, Bismarck is only credited for that observation. He was a master of the strategic ambiguity, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_dispatch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_dispatch ] * are dogs a good analogy? LEO (or wannabe LEO?) like to think of themselves as the good guys, the sheepdogs, as opposed to the bad guys, the wolves. Might it be possible to point out that it's mostly small, fearful, dogs who bite inappropriately; big dogs are more tolerant? EDIT: Altenmeyer seems to have called it (p254): > 19 Some high RWAs may be especially energized now because the backlash that is growing against their causes convinces them that they are being discriminated against.