Look at all the fires. Rush over here and put that one out. Rush over there and put the next one out. And so on and so on.
Is that what politics feels like today? All we’re doing is putting out little fires hoping to keep the house from burning down.
It doesn’t seem that long ago there weren’t so many fires. That the house wasn’t in such constant danger. But something changed.
And it changed on purpose.
The fires are intentional. We have an arsonist in the White House and he is having a grand time with his box of matches. Which begs the question — why so many fires? Besides the obvious answer that he’s loony tunes.
The little fires keep us busy. Too busy to stop the big fire from being ignited. The one we can see but can’t get to because all our time and energy is going into the constant diversions.
Forest fire management — how’s that for a change of direction?
Actually it’s the same road.
In forest fire management they build firebreaks. They do this by setting controlled fires of their own — clearing an area ahead of the main blaze so the big one has nowhere left to go.
Are we doing that? Are we putting stops in place ahead of time or just reacting to the constant diversions?
We know what the goal is. What are we being proactive about to stop him from reaching it? How are we taking the ball away? And most importantly — what are we going to do with it when we get possession?
Right now we are playing a purely defensive game.
Where is the offense?
The firebreak doesn’t build itself. The ball doesn’t move without someone running with it.
Time to get off the bench.
Then maybe we can keep the house from burning down.
