What the Backroom is good for, and what it is not

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Brits managed to drag their Brexit into the thread on usefulness of backroom debates. Good God! Will you ever stop?

We're all secretly in it together. Brexit is actually a conspiracy to lull Europe into a false sense of complacency about the state of Britain and Her Empire.

[Gilrandir]

There are two ways to argue - you can either seek to undermine your interlocutor and destroy their arguments or you can engage with them and seek to understand their argument. If both parties engage in the latter way of arguing then not only is the experience generally more congenial, it is also more humble.

There is a third way - to promote YOUR argument whatever the opponent thinks of it.

We're all secretly in it together. Brexit is actually a conspiracy to lull Europe into a false sense of complacency about the state of Britain and Her Empire.

If we=all EU citizens then you may be right. If we=all forumers then I don't think so. Americans are too occupied with discussing what Trump has already done and anticipating what he might yet do. As for others, they have their own joys and sorrows to pay more than a cursory attention to the bickerings inside a far away prosperous country on an issue that is unlikely to concern them personally.

[Gilrandir]

Double post.