Everyone it seems has some idea about some policy or more but for what end purpose? It is one thing to prescribe policies that have an immediate effect on how we all live but for what purpose? What is the end game or the vision that inspires the policy? I don't often hear about how our leaders see the world in their most objective sight and instead I hear about what seems to be convenient policy for some well moneyed interests. It is a sad state of affairs in our current era that politicians are too beholden to moneyed interests as a means for securing their jobs. When the real duty they should have is to a better world for all of us. I suppose that since I don't hear about their visions of society in a perfect world it is because they don't have one. Now it is perfectly reasonable to not have a vision of our combined future, but to act like they do when they don't is just another sign of how little character resides within them. One can serve the public good without a vision if one places the needs of the many over the needs of the few in most situations. it should only be a rare occurrence when the needs of the few would ever demand greater attention than the needs of the many. We are a society built upon all of our mutual consent. In a Democracy, the rule of the majority will that has the principles of virtue instilled within it should be the guiding force toward our future, not some amelioration of compromised benefit to profit some over the many. Whenever I hear some absurd proposal that is defended with confusing logic, I know that the giver of such a proposal is acting in an inherently bad way. Without defining a vision of the future that directly links to the progress of the many, only selfish considerations can come of it.
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