DO NOT GIVE UP.

Do not comply in advance.

Do not "be realistic" or "get real" or "grow up". Remember there are people paid to make you give up, through divisiveness and false advice.

If life is a slippery slope, be the grit.

(This is tagged "world" politics because like it or not, as goes the US, so goes most of the world. Certainly the ones reading this in English. Don't fool yourself that you're not trapped in this trainwreck with us.)