Incrementalism
One of the most frustrating things about being a Liberal is patience. We are so desperate in our conviction to our beliefs that we want the world to shift over night. We want peace, justice, compassion and civility to arrive like a torrential rain cleansing society of injustice and malaise. We are filled with hope yet the very hope we cling to lays the ultimate seeds for much of our eventual frustration and dismay. When we elect a candidate based on a message of hope and change we tend to envision it as if we are buying a product. We simply have to take it home, open it up and we can sample the fruits of our labor and our money. We hope it will be deliciously sweet, filled with all the promises that were made. Often however, as the metaphor would come to suggest the flavor is much more complex. Little in America changes quickly. We always like to think it will yet we live in a system that for better or for worse does not allow this. It can be frustrating at times as we se