Being right isn't enough

Conservatives may feel that reason is enough, but it isn't. What gets people moving is emotion. Note the similarity in the words. For example, if you add "e" to "motion", you get "emotion". Feeling and action go together. If you want to get something done, you have to have some strong feeling attached to it. Otherwise, nothing will happen.

This is but one facet of the phenomenon to which the title of the post refers--

Being right is not enough

Another facet to it is something which appears many times on this blog--Aesop's Fable about the wolf and the lamb. The moral to that story is that force has the better of an argument.

The lamb and the wolf had an argument you see, but the wolf being stronger and meaner got his way with the lamb. The lamb could protest with all the persuasion of Perry Mason for all the good it did him. Being right wasn't enough for the lamb, and the wolf didn't need to be right, you see.

You could argue with all the angels on your side and you'll still lose. Some folks might object, but this is the way of the world. How can you argue that it isn't so?

The wolf will still couch all his arguments as if it were based upon the better angels, but the wolf is still a wolf.

Being right isn't enough when you're the lamb and you don't want to be on the wolf's menu. Maybe that will motivate you conservatives to get MOVING.

Here's another saying: The race doesn't always go to the swift, but that is the way to bet.

And a thought for those who like reason: if you don't get started, you'll never get there.