All or Nothing . . . 0
. . . is not how to things get done.
Martin Kettle at the Guardian comments on the tendency of liberals to be rigid and doctrinaire:
Betrayal? Not in my book. A mistake? Perhaps. The dilemma in Afghanistan is profound. Obama’s chosen course may prove disastrous, masterly or, more likely, somewhere in between. But that does not make it a betrayal. I yield to few in my admiration for Professor Wills. In my eyes, Garry Wills is up there with Hugo Young as one of the commentarial paragons of my era. But betrayal? If the Nobel committee was naively premature in elevating Obama to the pantheon, Wills is surely naively premature in banishing him from it.
Betrayal has long provided a liberal comfort zone from which to survey the difficult issues in modern politics.
Read the whole thing.
The world is neither simple, nor easy. Neither is politics.
Indeed, one of the (many) flaws of Republicanism is that it attempts to render the world to simple (usually either with bombs and bullets or with tax cuts–too many Clint Eastwood movies) and ends up with simpletons.
Grow up, stop moaning on the innerwebs because things ain’t easy and simple, take out your pens, and write your damn Congresspersons, write them real letters, and sign them by hand.
And don’t give up, for giving up is giving in.
Politicians stop being scared only if they think there are votes in not being scared.
