What I said was that "flip-flop" is only a term used to try to destroy someone you differ with who has the strength to change their mind and act on the new information instead of bullheadedly sloshing forward. As Pete Seeger said so elloquently in his Viet Nam era song, doing that will prove terribly tragic when one is "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy---and the damned fool says to push on". ------ That is the only time I have ever heard Pete Seeger use an expletive. I suspect he felt it was needed to make his point as forcefully as was possible.

The bullhead, last time I looked, was a fish that had the wisdom to flip-flop contentedly back to deep water --- where the breathing was maybe easier and healthier.

Art Thieme