FELDSTED: It’s hard to be a progressive … or … tossing money at this, putting a band-aid on that, and creating a new program (to distract from long-standing problems) is not working
These days it seems that many people, in particular younger people, no longer gravitate to traditional political parties. They think of themselves as ‘progressives’ and favour changing of our traditions, values and society in general. If you inquire about what they stand for, they use the term progress. I have nothing against progress. I have little desire to return to carrying water from a well, using kerosene lamps including maintaining the darn things, outhouses, scrubbing boards, houses with little or no insulation, wood stoves and many other things I grew up with. However, progress requires a few things that progressives lack: Before we can move forward you have to understand where we are, and how we got there … we did not suddenly reach adulthood out of nowhere. We have a history, and have achievements and accomplishments, made over time As a society we have made many poor decisions. We have to know what they were, and what the results were, to a...