I'm a bit tired of the Johnny-Come-lately types that complain about #DezNat. That find fault with the methods it uses. That take potshots at its foibles and failures from the safety of the sidelines. Ever willing to denigrate those defending the faith.
Rarely raising the same objections at the ravenous wolves trying to devour the sheep, while angrily throwing stones at sheep dogs that at times nip a sheep, maybe too hard, to urge it to safety.
Theodore Roosevelt had a bit to say on this kind of thing:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better...
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better...
...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;...
but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,...
...so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
