The longer this month’s debate goes on, the more difficulty I have comprehending the level of “me-ness” that’s at the center of it. No take, no give, no existence as part of the human race, no, it’s all about “me”. At least, it is if you watch any coverage of the ridiculous town halls that have been co-opted by the likes of Lyndon LaRouche and completely insane people shouting at each other as though there was some proposal for mandatory re-education. It’s so bizarre that I have to believe the overall strategy is to convince us all that insanity is sanity; logic is confusion; fact is fiction. Disagreement becomes “hate”, but people wave signs with swastikas and images of Hitler as though it’s done every day. Friends turn their backs on each other. My mind boggles further.
At the end of a hot, sultry August full of fire with no illumination, my mind wanders back to four years ago, to New Orleans. A city left under water, on purpose. Is this really who we want to be? Little universes, crashing into one another without regard for the damage done?
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