Saying ‘I Told You So’ Never Works. Here’s What DOES WORK…

Quoting Dr. Gary North:

It never does any good to go to the losers and say, “I told you so.” It does a great deal of good to go to the general public, which is always in search of leadership, and say, “We told them so.” You don’t convert true believers and spokesmen very often, but you can undermine their leadership.

Hear, hear!

And again, with bolding and colors:

It never does any good to go to the losers and say, “I told you so.” It does a great deal of good to go to the general public, which is always in search of leadership, and say, “We told them so.”

You don’t convert true believers and spokesmen very often [*], but you can undermine their leadership.

[*] Yehuda Epstein dares apply this truth here.

Bottom line:

Don’t waste time talking to the opposition about the subject at hand unless you are (legally) recording for the purpose of later on making them look foolish or hypocritical or the like.

In fact, I once did go to real, genuine Torah scholars and asked these genuine Torah scholars (did I say “genuine” yet?) about a clear discrepancy between the Torah and a certain “Da’as Torah” (one of many).

What was I thinking?! Until this day I am occasionally haunted by traumatic memories (suppressed, never recorded) of the episode.

But showing the only audience with any ears there were those who knew the truth and tried telling it to the rabbis, albeit with no success (Holocaust, internet filtering, “peace“, centralization, freeing murderers, etc., etc.)? Ah, now, that might work…