No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Policy must be grounded in real world conditions to be valuable.
- In plain terms
- Policies that ignore reality are useless.
- What can you take from it?
- Ground policies in reality.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is your plan based on facts or hopes?
- What reality checks do you include?
Another view
Reality can change faster than policy adjusts.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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