The People of the World Want to Be Left in Peace and May Keep Going to War to Get It
It’s clear that the citizens of the world want what most of us want, in the deepest and most honorable parts of our war-weary souls…a little peace and security, a quiet Sunday buying ice cream for the kids. I know that’s a lot to ask. I understand that rolling the dice with other people’s lives is heady stuff for leaders and it’s a trip to play the big game.
We-the-people are tired of the big game
The big game is too expensive, and we can’t house our homeless.
The big game is everyone snapping to attention when the president walks into a room, and the rooms we walk into back home are likely to have a 30-year-old university educated son living in them, who can’t find a job.
The big game has an election coming up between a nut-cake and an old pro of a politician, while we ordinary folk look at each other and wonder how it came to pass that this is the best we can offer in a world gone to hell.
It’s not ‘pitchforks and barricades’ yet, but it’s terrifyingly close
Has anyone really thought thro…