I’ve been on the front line of this for so long its not funny...There are few left...We get replacements for a little while when things boil up like right now...
The right thing has always been there, it is how effective, and in sufficient numbers we are successful...
Realistic constituent expectations, are only tempered by the obfuscation of the cowards we elect to represent us...Until they physically feel the danger to their elected positions, their power they feel they have over their domain...They will not act upon “doing the right thing” it is a symptomatic deficiency among the elected caste of characters in our state houses and Feds up in D.C., but this is old news...
To make something like this work, you HAVE to look at the big picture...But do not let that stop you from getting it done, we will need not allow them to quit before it actually can be implemented...
There is a way, like what I interjected, to make this work...It will not be easy by any means...The courage these schmups we elect will have to come from pressure we put on them, regardless of how you like them or not, how willing are they to commit to the cause...
When they finally and physically see that lives are at stake, and lives are being lost every single day because of their inaction...then you might see something happen...
But I am not holding my breath...
It’s reached a point that it can no longer be ignored. I, of course, suspect the usual, extortion by quid pro quo( you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back) and power. These politicians are on a gravy train. They have never been really challenged on this before. Oh sure, there is the usual bleating; but no real solving the problem. This kind of problem reaches all levels from the top to the bottom which means states and local included. It’s almost like office politics and the intrigues involved. Everyone has a reason for what they do even if they don’t know what the reason is. You know what? I started wondering what was wrong for the dumbest of all reasons. When I happen to see road signs saying “Adopt a road.” I thought why do this? Don’t taxes pay for our roads? I am tired of politicians with their private piggy banks. They don’t deserve it and we don’t deserve them having them. They are also not the end all to the end all. The country will survive for the better if we get them out.