Democrats See No Road Forward, Only Perpetual Crisis

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They say the Chinese word for crisis is also the same word for opportunity. It’s not true, but obviously it resonates with all the people that say it.

Assuredly it is better to look for opportunity in moments of crisis than to resign oneself to doom. Baron Rothschild once said — and he really did say it — “buy when there’s blood on the streets.” The man amassed quite a fortune amidst an awful lot of misfortune and misery.

I’m not sure there is opportunity to be found in every crisis, but there’s no harm in looking for it while your boat is sinking or your employer closes the plant you work at. Perhaps in some crises there is no opportunity to be seized. But on the other hand, perhaps there is no way out of some crises without discovering something even better than what you stand to lose. Sometimes, the only way out of a crisis is to think big, to make a change that will have you thankful that the crisis arose in the first place. Sometimes, the only alternative to damnation is salvation.

Some people are blindsided by a crisis even while others around them saw it coming a long way off. Such people generally do not do well in a crisis, but panic. They refuse to see what got them in the predicament they are in because they were at least partly responsible for it. Perhaps it was merely loving someone so much…