A recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press caught my attention. It was about a women who had chosen to end it all by drinking five shots of vodka and speeding down a road in her SUV at 100 mph to, "die by the flesh to get to heaven," as she had read in the bible. She succeeded in killing a snow removal city employee sitting in a city truck, but not herself, and is now facing murder charges.
The article caught my attention because of the potential for linking, gun control style. Using that paradigm, I supposed that we should focus on passing legislation regulating SUV's off the road to reduce the chance of death by ramming.
Progressivism - an ideal currently embraced by Bernie and, to a lesser extent, Hillary - would probably lend itself to that, given the traditional progressive penchant for elimination of SUV's as option of personal transportation. That would link this link into the link of SUV size and degree of injury in accidents between SUV's and smaller more fuel efficient cars.
Linking is becoming my favorite term for the illusion of cause and effect in political discourse used to justify actions intended to address problems, both of which - the problem and the solution - are poorly if at all defined. This season of presidential politics offers endless examples.
The article caught my attention because of the potential for linking, gun control style. Using that paradigm, I supposed that we should focus on passing legislation regulating SUV's off the road to reduce the chance of death by ramming.
Progressivism - an ideal currently embraced by Bernie and, to a lesser extent, Hillary - would probably lend itself to that, given the traditional progressive penchant for elimination of SUV's as option of personal transportation. That would link this link into the link of SUV size and degree of injury in accidents between SUV's and smaller more fuel efficient cars.
Linking is becoming my favorite term for the illusion of cause and effect in political discourse used to justify actions intended to address problems, both of which - the problem and the solution - are poorly if at all defined. This season of presidential politics offers endless examples.
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