Archive for August 28th, 2006
Change is Frightening, but Fear is Paralyzing
I left the comment below on Psychobilly Democrat where my friend Redhorse posted this. I too hope that people have HAD ENOUGH.
I hope part of “had enough” for voters is the fact that telling us things are good when we can look around us and see that is not the case in our own respective neighborhood will be ENOUGH for people to say we need a change of leadership.My biggest complaint about the current crop in office is that they continually tell us things are better, like we are too stupid to know that they are not talking about us, but are talking about their campaign contributors.I took a leadership course once and the biggest obstacle to progress is people’s inability to change. People fear change.
It reminds me of FDR’s memorable quote “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”. I also remember his comment when people asked him “what if the new deal doesn’t work? He said then we will try something else, but by God, we have to do something”. And he did, many people forget that there were two New Deals.Lately, I have been thinking of FDR and Winston Churchill a lot. I keep wondering what does that mean?
Could it mean that we are headed for another depression if we don’t change now? I hope we have the courage to change this November because by God people we have to do something.