A Chinese sage once said a long journey is commenced by taking the first step. He might also have said that before one begins a long journey it is well to have a destination in mind.
Lately our politics has degenerated into the shouting of empty slogans and crowd-pleasing postures ie; whipping up the base. Shakespeare called it “playing to the pit”, appealing to the lowest common denominator.
In the 1950’s an independent self educated guru named Eric Hoffer distinguished between real leaders and those who determined the direction the mob was traveling and ran as fast as possible to get out front to appear as if a leader. Today we have an oversupply of the latter, basking in the limelight and encouraging more heat and less light.
Term limits advocates have been morphed into a “turn the rascals out movement,” vote out all the incumbents and then, what ? Replace them with a bunch of pliant know-nothings, except to respond to the voices of the mob ? Better a quick review of the French revolution.
Before you hop on a bandwagon, make sure it has 4 wheels and the driver knows where he’s going.
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