Bush progressivism

The most important question in the world to ask is, what will happen next?  By asking oneself this simple question and considering as many possibilities as possible before taking any action, one can best avoid the most apparent consequences to bad decisions.  

Naturally that coin has two sides.  The other, to recount consequences of decisions already in the ledgers of history.  Both on the grand scales and the personal scales.  

We as a nation, especially as voters, can rightly be accused of listening to sound bites rather than comparing contestants(' intentions and personal histories) of the nomination races to the US and state constitution.  

This isn't something new.  We took a hard right back to the founding documents with Reagan.  The founding principles of individual liberty and its strangest bedfellow federalism.  Reagan won by riding the bristling back of a warthog called of our own brand of nationalism, into the face of a group of terrorists who held US citizens hostage.  

(Since Iranians likely never heard of Superman much less kryptonite, I needed something more sinister to their view of things.  A US president riding an angry, snorting, snaggle toothed embodiment of bacon hell into their midst provides pretty good imagery.)

Back on topic.  We were a nation holding its head high after that.  Squared shoulders.  We reposed ourselves in the warm light of strength.  Then followed generations of progressivisms.  Not so much from the voters, but the extremists.  The fringe.  High taxes, regulations, deregulations.  Always creating new problems.

The original problem, as it always has been, is that it is easier to appear proactive looking forward than it is correcting what were the mistakes that got us here in the first place.  Partly I think, because no one wants to look the ogre for laying blame at the feet of those who own it.  Sure, republicans can do it when that blame seems to lie in front of their political opponents.  Same with the dems.  The problem is, the problem still is.  The cause hasn't been fixed.  Progressive republicans aren't constitutionalists in terms of the intent of the documents, which exist to justify and fortify a government of, for and by The People.

Magna Carta.

http://jenkuznicki.com/2014/11/peter-wehners-greatest-hit-jobs/



Harv