[Gaffer]

Capitulation and appeasement are not “vision”.

[MUDDOG]

The federal gov’t is not supposed to have a vision!

It’s supposed to be strictly limited to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.

We need to repeal the past visions that have curtailed our liberty and bankrupt the country.

[duffee]

Socialism and a world, or at least a United States, without borders.

[Vision Thing]

It was George H.W. Bush who reportedly dismissed an idea from a friend that he should spend time at Camp David thinking about what he might do should he become president. According to a January 26, 1987 article in Time magazine, Bush is said to have dismissed the suggestion with this line: "Oh, the vision thing."

Hey papa boosh: you may hold the vision thing in contempt, but the vision thing holds you in contempt, you one-and-done establishment puke.

[JoeFromSidney]

He needs to read Clausewitz, who said that tactics is about how to win battles; strategy is about which battles should be fought. Strategy needs a vision of where you want to go, so you can figure out which battles will take you there.