Hand wringers are not leaders. Their education usually works against them. Most also suffer from little experience in what they wring their hands about.

The old catch 22 used to be “but”. Now it is “concerns”. No evidence or historical experience is required to make the statement. And it gets reported and reverberated around the main stream media till some even believe concerns are now facts. These people are both the reverberaters and the media who buy it, and even some of the public. Even more interesting is the hand wringer persona and confidence which suggests their lack of education and experience is acceptable to the public in making their public concerns, public. Some of we public think hand wringer concerns are a public admission of ignorance, albeit without shame of embarrassment to them, though what is happening is both publically embarrassing and shameful. But also it is hard to shame such local people, since most are not local, but from more distant lands and political causes.

Hand wringers abound in the main stream media, mostly in TV reporting and the newspapers.

There are concerns about the President’s Iraq policy for example. Is he too idealistic or naïve to expect democracy in the Middle East. Well hand wringers suggested much the same about Japan’s ability to become a democracy during the occupation after WWII, though one never hears a peep now. I suspect most hand wringers today are just ignorant on this subject.

Hand wringers worry about human’s contribution to global warming as if worse case based on their lack of information or their Google searching should drive public policy, for the world. The old expression of never assume conspiracy, when sheer incompetence comes to mind, still applies.

Hand wringers presently have to focus on we in the west who are both intimidated by them legally, and often have much in common anyway. Handwringers avoid the third world because they will be killed. Until they the business men and legal types fix their problems in the east, they appear to be a drag, not a solution. A little science and financing will go a long way, if they the businessmen and legal types do the work. Yes, facts and details, not concerns, will dictate good public policy in the future for the harvesting of the rain forests, for example. Overseas Chinese pay attention.

So who will lead America in our future? Many present surveys suggest many don’t care much as long as things go on. Not too shabby. Some of us even think things will sort out as long as the hand wringers and their fellows see the way of the vote, and accept it.