HAVING HEROS is fine, long as you don't take it too seriously. nothing wrong with a role model or two now and again. I have many..einstein, crockett....one needs heros of all genders, one needs heros both living and dead, for inspiration, if nothing else.
Female heros i need to work on. one's mother is usually a good start. or eleanor roosevelt, mother theresa, or hillary, um... among the living, what about warren buffet and bill gates? conservatives and liberals oughta be able to come together on those two.
for one thing, they are both successful, incredibly successful, according to the most prominent criterion for success in america: earned wealth. that in itself should be sufficient to please conservatives and/or republicans.
they both have given away almost half of their fortunes to charity, and that should appeal to the feel good do good liberals. and since they've done it volulntarily, without any government coercion, the conservatives might even give 'em a break, even though they were stupid enough to give their money to lazy poor people, thus subsidizing sloth, as the conservative argument seems to go.
and not only that, but both of them believe in progressive taxation, which makes them liberal, and thus worthy of admiration of liberals everywhere, though this might not attract conservatives to the ideal that they are heros. (conservatives tend to like flat taxes, flat and low, but certainly not progressive)
They certainly are heros in my little liberal socialistic heart. and also in the capitalistic conservative part o me heart. In honor of gates i use microsoft, and in honor of buffett i invest my ten dollars wherever he invests his billions.
what greater indication of admiration could there possibly be?
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