Ain't nobody messin' with you but you
...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.
Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.