"This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us"
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A politician’s favorite trick is to make uncertainty sound like destiny, and Marc Forne Molne’s line does it with calm, ceremonial confidence. “This path that we are now starting” is choreography: it frames policy not as a contested choice but as the opening steps of a collective journey. The phrase “will be long” quietly pre-empts impatience and opposition. If results don’t arrive quickly, that’s not failure; it’s the nature of the road.
The pronouns do the heavy lifting. “We” appears as both subject and audience, collapsing leader and public into a single moral body. That fusion creates buy-in while sidestepping the messy fact that not everyone agreed to start walking. It’s governance by inclusive grammar.
Then comes the real payload: “to remind ourselves of the great principles.” “Remind” is a subtle power move. It implies these principles already belong to the group, which makes dissent feel like amnesia rather than disagreement. It also shifts attention from specific mechanisms (taxes, laws, trade-offs) to a higher altitude where critique is harder. Principles are hard to audit.
The qualifier “in our understanding” is an insurance clause. It nods to pluralism and interpretation, signaling moderation while still claiming authority over what “should always inspire us.” That “always” is the moral absolutism tucked inside a soft voice: the path may be long, but the compass is non-negotiable.
Contextually, this reads like a transitional moment - the start of an administration, a reform agenda, or a post-crisis reset - where legitimacy is built by wrapping pragmatism in rhetoric that sounds like memory, unity, and inevitability.
The pronouns do the heavy lifting. “We” appears as both subject and audience, collapsing leader and public into a single moral body. That fusion creates buy-in while sidestepping the messy fact that not everyone agreed to start walking. It’s governance by inclusive grammar.
Then comes the real payload: “to remind ourselves of the great principles.” “Remind” is a subtle power move. It implies these principles already belong to the group, which makes dissent feel like amnesia rather than disagreement. It also shifts attention from specific mechanisms (taxes, laws, trade-offs) to a higher altitude where critique is harder. Principles are hard to audit.
The qualifier “in our understanding” is an insurance clause. It nods to pluralism and interpretation, signaling moderation while still claiming authority over what “should always inspire us.” That “always” is the moral absolutism tucked inside a soft voice: the path may be long, but the compass is non-negotiable.
Contextually, this reads like a transitional moment - the start of an administration, a reform agenda, or a post-crisis reset - where legitimacy is built by wrapping pragmatism in rhetoric that sounds like memory, unity, and inevitability.
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| Topic | New Beginnings |
|---|---|
| Source | Help us find the source |
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