Mother Davis walks up a steep hill as she scribbles in her notebook,
Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, identifies the weakness that lies behind the right wing ideology summarized in Ronald Reagan’s statement that “government is the problem”. When the government’s own leaders identify government as a problem instead of a potential source of solutions, they leave themselves unready to deal with the kind of large disasters that only government can death with.
Pope explained that, because of the anti-government bias encouraged by right wingers like Ronald Reagan, “Politicians of both parties have become accustomed to a government that thinks small and provides less—even when enormous societal challenges like global warming demand sweeping action.”
The problems America faces now are very large indeed, and we need leaders who have imaginations that are large enough to come up with good government solutions. We need progressives.
Reaching the summit,
Mother Davis
