Against the flow
Every time I think that I am being manipulated in some way, I tend to find the opposite direction. See how that's going and if there's nothing supporting it, then that's the way I go. I can't find the missing piece, if I am going along with everyone else. Mostly because they haven't found it, otherwise I would be going with them. No, I just don't like being thrown in with any group. Democrat and Republican? No, give me a decent 3rd party candidate which nobody thinks has a chance, and I put my support behind them. Why? Well, mostly to piss off the ones who are in the group think of either this or you're a bad person. You know them as the "I can't believe you voted for this person" or the "you better not have voted this way". And guess what? I don't have any ground for them to complain. But that's only one example. There's the passive aggressive manipulations, where someone asks, "Are you interestin...