Conservativa

Where do I start with the article on the editorial page, written by Brian Moran? The only way to deal with it is to slice out all of the cliches. Once I did that, I was left with only a few sentences. Only one sentence do I want to comment on - this one, near the end:

“Yet leadership is not about restoring past successes or watching history in the rear-view mirror - it is about having a forward-looking agenda to provide results for people.”

First, you can’t “restore” “past successes” - successes are things achieved, thus in the past, and one cannot restore the past - it’s over, right? And where else would we be watching history? Again, it’s in the past, thus, using that metaphor, you would have to use the rear-view mirror. History will not be seen approaching us from the front windshield. Because it’s in the past.

I do get his point. We have to look at the past, but it is not wise to project those conditions into the future.

Look at the last part of the sentence - “agenda to provide results for people.” (Hmm, he didn’t say what kind of results). I don’t elect someone to hand me an agenda (particularly if that agenda will be drawn up in the mind of someone who writes like Moran writes) to provide “results” to people. I elect someone to build roads and bridges, supply a police force and military, and levy such taxes as are needful for those kinds of things - things I truly cannot do for myself. I do not elect people to spend my tax money on hare-brained schemes to fix what may or may not be climate change, to raise my children, etc.

Why do Democrats love to think of themselves as the party of the people, but in fact don’t trust the people?

Photo details: Canon EOS3, Fuji Pro400H. Originally had a bad pumpkin color cast. Fooled with the color in Photoshop, but removing the color cast left a pale mess, which you see here.