Does your political life feel like you’re slogging through piles of horse manure? Perhaps my perspective about cleaning the barn will bring an image to mind that might help.
You need special tools—a pick that has tines spaced about an inch apart--the plastic ones hold up better than the metal--a scoop shovel, a broom, and a muck bucket or wagon. We invested in a wagon because trips to the manure pile are tiresome.
My pick easily slides under those round balls. I sift the clean shavings and dump the load into my wagon. For wet spots, I scrape off clean shavings and shovel the soaked bedding into the cart. Then I sprinkle barn lime to deodorize the wet spots. I dump the whole shebang onto the manure pile where rats might find some warmth, the coyotes might find a snack and my fields are eventually fed.
So when you think about your political choices, el gato malo, a writer kicked off Twitter, in his blog “selecting for extreme narcissism” offers the following, metaphorical pick and shovel: “if you finally want to live and breathe free…stop thinking in terms of right vs. left and start thinking in terms of coercion vs. liberty. find politicians who do not want to tell you what to do or take or redistribute your stuff…seek reduction in regulation and the promotion of personal choice, not ‘just one more set of rules to make us safe.’”
I’m Katie Andraskiand that’s my perspective.
