It’s sad that what we’re really remembering Bill Clinton for now - and maybe forever - has nothing to do with what’s good in politics. No wonder Katie and so many people think politics is “ugly”, dirty and not fit for “social events” - too many have made it about anything but working together to better peoples’ lives. Politicians and voters need to start having more honest discussions - and politicians need to make the first move. Government needs to build its credibility by solving problems, which it does every day, and better publicizing its successes - while acknowledging it failures.
Abraham Lincoln once said about government,
“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”
Government is not the solution. Government is a solution. In the next four years those who forget that, and abandon government indiscriminately, will find that there is a steep social price to pay.
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