Comments on: Don’t Let Kerlikowske’s Comments Send Your Analysis to Pot http://themoderatevoice.com/41093/dont-let-kerlikowskes-comments-send-your-analysis-to-pot/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Don’t Let Kerlikowske’s Comments Send Your Analysis to Pot http://themoderatevoice.com/41093/dont-let-kerlikowskes-comments-send-your-analysis-to-pot/comment-page-1/#comment-197135 Don’t Let Kerlikowske’s Comments Send Your Analysis to Pot Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:35:23 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=41093#comment-197135 [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptPolitics, perhaps depressingly at its best, is about strategic compromise, the “art of the possible,” as was once so famously put by German-Prussian politician Otto Von Bismarck. A goodly proportion of that art, then, is the fine skill of knowing what is and what is not possible at any given time. Because, to borrow from another socio-political prophet: you can achieve some things some times, but you can’t achieve all the things all the time. So while I understand that recent(ish) commentary [...] [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptPolitics, perhaps depressingly at its best, is about strategic compromise, the “art of the possible,” as was once so famously put by German-Prussian politician Otto Von Bismarck. A goodly proportion of that art, then, is the fine skill of knowing what is and what is not possible at any given time. Because, to borrow from another socio-political prophet: you can achieve some things some times, but you can’t achieve all the things all the time. So while I understand that recent(ish) commentary [...]

]]> By: Kastanj http://themoderatevoice.com/41093/dont-let-kerlikowskes-comments-send-your-analysis-to-pot/comment-page-1/#comment-197102 Kastanj Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:04:13 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=41093#comment-197102 The problem is that sooner or later you have to confront the inertia and backwardness of the general public and make decisions over their heads, otherwise things never progress. There was resistance to women becoming police officers and the devil knows what else. The law of the lumpen can't be deferred to so casually.<br><br>The war on drugs is a pathetic, shameful, obsolete and vestigial little crusade that acts as a comfort blanket for those of little perspective. It's just as despicable as DADT, but apparently poor Obama thinks doing the right thing is a thing of the past. Sometimes, the best way to serve and care for the best of the average citizen is to tell him to be a bit humble and accept commonsensical changes. It's the real world, and we have to adapt rather than demand ideological concessions and hoop-jumping by our government. The problem is that sooner or later you have to confront the inertia and backwardness of the general public and make decisions over their heads, otherwise things never progress. There was resistance to women becoming police officers and the devil knows what else. The law of the lumpen can't be deferred to so casually.

The war on drugs is a pathetic, shameful, obsolete and vestigial little crusade that acts as a comfort blanket for those of little perspective. It's just as despicable as DADT, but apparently poor Obama thinks doing the right thing is a thing of the past. Sometimes, the best way to serve and care for the best of the average citizen is to tell him to be a bit humble and accept commonsensical changes. It's the real world, and we have to adapt rather than demand ideological concessions and hoop-jumping by our government.

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