“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

–  John F. Kennedy

Comment

Fixing the blame for the past is sometimes necessary, though. If you don’t know what you did wrong, how will you know which path to take in the future? And which ideas worked and which didn’t? How will you tell the shepherds trying to save the flock from the wolves intent on devouring it?

Blame is necessary. So is judgment. What isn’t necessary is condemnation and hatred.