POLITICAL KAMIKAZES

Recollections/impressions of what I used to know (note the tense) about one Edmund Burke have been swirling about the memory banks of this writer the last few weeks/months.

I have it that he was the 18th Century English political philosopher who dealt with the question of whether members of Parliament (or, our political reps) should speak only their own minds on issues or whether they should also speak the minds of their constituents.

W/0 research, I believe that he said that there should be a bit of both, with the understanding that morality, legality, etc., would trump the wishes of the multitude if they strayed from the straight and narrow.

What would E.B. say about the current national dem kamikaze approach to nhs, wherein they are defying the will of the majority to force a gargantuan doctrinaire program on the nation?

I used to think that kamikazes were only in ancient Japan or in the last year or so of WW2. Then we learned there were variant strains in the current war on terror.

And now we see that it exists also in the national dem party.

Good grief!!