Well do as you please, but remember that you gotta convince them butt-kissers to go out and do their butt-kissing for what YOU want them to be kissing butt for...rather than what someone else, maybe those opposed to your idea, ARE kissing THEIR butts for.
Look at it this way...which is more important, the issue you are trying to advance, or your own pride and vanity? Nobody's saying to compromise core principles, just to be nice and make people feel good about themselves. Another rule of getting things done....you gotta check your ego at the door.
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey