AIDS Day Visuals: How Grave is Your Ribbon?

Why is it that conservatives rarely challenge their leaders, while progressives always challenge them? What was Reagan’s admonition? “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”?

Of course AIDS is no respecter of age, race, sex, religion, political orientation, sexual orientation, etc. But progressives are much more supportive of AIDS victims than are conservatives, who tend to blame the victims.

Progressives see life as complicated, confronting us with many different issues. Those of us who are personally involved with or attracted to a particular issue, are inclined to try to push that issue to the foreground.

The rest of us face the complexity with feelings close to dismay. How are the issues related? Which should be given precedence at any given moment? How can we “take turns in the spotlight,” so to speak? Why are we always reactive rather than proactive?