Breaking off the trail at the last possible moment.
Years ago, the Trib used to run a paid column on Sundays by a local Protestant minister. I can't recall what denomination he was in, but it was over in the Anabaptist end of things.
It was always interesting, as the author was clearly really going down the trail of the early Church, and he'd follow it week after week consistently. . .right up until it suddenly didn't go where he wanted. So, for example, he'd note Christ's commission to the Apostles, how Peter was the head of the early Church, and come within a hair of adopting the principal of Apostolic Succession. . . before he'd suddenly break off. Or he'd take a look at the Last Supper, start going down the road of Transubstantiation, and then suddenly break off.
It's a very human trait.
Some time ago, on Twitter, I subscribed to Robert Reich's Twitter feed, and I'll occasionally read his articles. They're interesting on economics.
Reich is solidly in the old school, "progressive", left wing of the Democratic Party. I note that, as he can't get over it.
He'll start following a trail of economic thought, and how the economy in his argument is dominated by the few, how that needs to stop, how average people need more control of the economy, and get right up to the brink of Distributism. . .and then break off. Taxes are the solution, he argues.
Well, they have to be. After all, that's the progressive solution for, well, nearly everything.
Robert. Your inner Distributist is trying to visit with you. That's Chesterton's cigar you're sensing late at night . . .
