Just Trying To Help

OVER THE YEARS I have learned that there are great benefits, often, to being particularly pleasant, friendly, and nice to people who dislike me, because they become uncomfortable with their negative attitude towards me, it somehow doden't feel entirely right to them, and they often ameliorate it somewhat, if not altoghther. Another way to express this is Machiavelli's famous "keep your friends close and your enemies closer". There is nothing anothe rhuman being can do to anger me more than merely dislikig me, and showing it. To me, that's the greatest of all sins, and when its obvious to me that somebody dislikes me, I resent it, and am tempted to bhave coldly and dismissively towards the person in question. Often, that's exactly what I do. But it harms me not to throw in a friendly smile or howdy once in a while to the assholes; who could use a bit of attitude adjustment, even if it requires a bit of manipulation. I assume that Dale Carnegie talked about this techinique in his classic "How To Win Friends and Influence People". published decades ago. Among many illegal Latin American immigrants in teh United States, this philosophy of turning the other cheek seems to have taken hold; organized groups of illegal regugees from latin America, even as they are being bussed like pawns out of Texas and Florida in yet another shocking display of right wing moral bankruptcy, are organizing and helping clear the rubble and clean up and repair the damage from hurricane Ian. Before you throw us away like the garbage you seem to think we are, let us help you recover from your recent disaster. More Power to the undocumented immigrants, and may teh governors of the states of Texas and Florida go straight to you kno where, and may they take with them everyone who embraces their policies. Ironically, the people being used as political props by the morally bankrupt governors are far superior human beings to those gubenatorial scoundrels, and are procedding to prove it every day.