Neither was JFK. Yet he rose to the challenge of Khrushchev and the segregationist rebellion in the South. He foresaw the mess that Viet Nam would become. I believe he understood the warning that Eisenhower sounded about the military-industrial complex. Some or all of that cost him his life.
To your point: our polity has devolved into merely competing ideologies. By ideology, I mean a set of ideas defining goals that are to be achieved through political power. Put a conservative or a liberal dressing on it, regardless we are trapped by this.
So I am leery of the Utopian ethos that lies at the root of all ideology.
Am I trapped by it? Yes I am. But, I am trying to reorder my thinking to at least be aware of it. One thing I am convinced of is that allowing ever more growth of and power to the central government is not the solution.
So, I try to listen and figure out what lies beyond the rhetoric. "Make America Great Again" is the theme. What is the way to the goal? Will it require a larger or smaller central government?
Can you tell me? Is making better deals the solution? Is a different set of hands on the levers that already are intruding into areas that are none of its business the solution?
Is there anything you can tell me to indicate that Trump cares for my concerns? The WaPo came out with a nice laundry list of specific demolitions that Cruz has called for on Leviathan.
If the Beast can be shrunk, even a little, then ideology, regardless of its variety, loses a little of its power to rule over me.
Let me respond later Don-O. I’ve been here longer than I should have been. I need to do a few other things.
Seems like a nice post. I’ll be back.