{"id":49380,"date":"2021-10-02T01:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T01:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49380"},"modified":"2021-10-02T01:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T01:27:33","slug":"good-government-isnt-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49380","title":{"rendered":"‘Good government’ isn’t pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As a good government progressive, I find this discussion over Build Back Better, the debt ceiling and ways to avoid a government shutdown an example of just how ugly good government can be.<\/p>\n

Man, it is damn ugly.<\/p>\n

But I will stand by my belief that good government, which is the government of the possible, must be ugly in order to get anything done.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the older I get the less ideological I become. I once was a flaming liberal. I took a two-year turn in the U.S. Army in the late 1960s, went to war for my country, came home as confused about that war as I was when I arrived, then got involved in presidential politics. I campaigned in my home state of Oregon for George McGovern in 1972. He lost big … remember?<\/p>\n

Time went on. I grew up a bit more. We’re now watching the progressive wing of the Democratic Party battle with the more moderate wing. The progressives have made some good points about wanting to spend a lot more money than the moderates want to spend. However, I am going to await the end of this haggling to see how it plays out.<\/p>\n

Thus, we are watching how good government might look ugly.<\/p>\n

In reality, I believe it will produce a thing of beauty at the end.<\/p>\n

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