The forever conundrum of elected officials at all levels is as follows: fight to keep things the way they are, the way they have always been, the way we love them to be, or work to make improvements, evolve in an ever-evolving world, prepare for the future in the present. No one likes change; no one is perfectly happy with the way things are. Maintain and evolve, simultaneously. Is it even possible?
Thankfully, it most certainly is. The answer lies in how the great political theorist Edmund Burke described the…
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