As such, you cant really gain consensus with them by talking about other countries and what Americans are missing. You have to flatter their ego and avoid bruising it, make ideas seem homegrown.

I’ve reintroduced legislative changes in the US modeled after the exact laws that I helped pass in European area countries. In America it absolutely has to appear as an original idea that Americans came up with first and independently.

There really is an art to consensus.

edit since I am rate-limited for the next two hours: I am referring to the people in power that matter for the next decade