“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”. This is a line that Ronald Reagan used to say
to conservative audiences that always got a predictable laugh. It seems to be a matter of conservative dogma
that the government is bloated, incompetent, and mediocre at best.
What nonsense!!!!
I live in Sonoma, California. We are living through the worst fire storm in state history, perhaps
the greatest disaster in California history. An astonishing and mind numbing catastrophe.
And the government?
Spectacular!! Every branch of government responding to this chaos is
performing way beyond my ability to express my gratitude, wonder, and awe. Fire fighters, law enforcement, city managers
and their staffs, council members and their staffs, OES, FEMA... To a man and to a woman they are working 12 –
20 hours a day. They know what they are
doing. They are doing it with great care
and excellence.
I cannot express how overwhelmed I am by the courage and
caring of these public servants.
So, where does that put our glorious president and his
Republican enablers? They are carrying
out decades long desires to destroy the government. The Republican President, the Republican Congress, and the Cabinet are destroying the
EPA, HHS, the State Department, DEA, just about every government agency that
they can. This means they are – Stupid? Evil?
Clueless? No, just locked into a dogma
that they can’t see beyond.
Dogma make you stupid.
I know. I have been dogmatically
liberal and dogmatically conservative, and I have been able to articualately
argue the dogmas on both sides all my life.
And each dogma is both right and wrong.
The only way out is to pay attention and reevaluate as often as
possible.
Government is NOT the problem. Government IS very helpful. Thank God.
“I am from the government, and I am here to help you” - YES YOU ARE ---- THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
