One simple word. One syllable containing the cure to much of society's ills. One syllable which has glaringly been missing from the lexicon of too many retrogressive thinkers. Actually, the question is whether these people think at all. True thought process requires looking into consequences, future benefits or snags. Too many do not complete that process, or worse, is they see the future and love it!
We are standing on a terribly fragile cliff's edge. We are there because we have made so many, many, misguided and plain wrong, ignorant - or purposeful - turns and decisions. Now we are left with a do or die situation. The outcome? Up in the air, nothing really good about the situation. We can stand still and hope there is a miracle. Or we turn around, face the rising numbers of political and social buffalos heading directly at us. Or we jump.
What is at the bottom of that fall is unknown. We will find out if we have a soft or hard landing only when the dust clears and the situation evaluated. Who has survived? What have these survivors brought along on their drastic fall? What did they feel would be of greatest value or meant the most to them? Only then will we know if we have met with success or have met with final irreparable disaster.
More and firmer use of that syllable NO would and could have averted this turn of events. NO to filthy thinking, to thoughts and actions that divided this country not into two, but into myriad numbers of fractious groups, each squealing their desires, trying to run roughshod over all and everyone else.
The flapping of foolish, yet dangerous, tongues, along with the flapping and snapping flags in the hurricane strength winds have deafened us, blinded us. In our obsession with red flags, blue flags, we never recognized the absence of white flags. These were the flags which would have signaled a willingness to surrender to sense, an awareness of the existential danger rushing at us, at our country. Those third color flags are necessary but glaringly missing. With them, we have our flags of the Red, White, and Blue- our national flag, our unity. Lacking white flags, equal to the number of red and blue flags, is imminent disaster. The point of no return will rush at us in increasing speed. Unless and until we realize, internalize, deep into our national blood and tissues, of the utter necessity of Red, White, and Blue flags, well, follow the bouncing ball.
The resultant tune, and chaos will bring us to an end. The very air around us will ring with the cries of the Founding Fathers, the agonized screams of those who fought and died for this country, the moans of those brave immigrants who built this country, who had great hopes of and for this country. Gone.
Why gone? Because we were so embroiled in our game of chicken, that we never saw the fox charging at us. We ignored the brutal slaying of children, of people at prayer, of people living life. We refused to see that if we did not institute gun control, ban weapons of war from the hands of civilians, we would follow that dead end road until we finally reached that crumbling cliff edge.
Why cannot we say NO to gun proliferation? Why can we not shout from the mountain tops that lives of children far outweigh the mistaken 'right' to own murderous weapons. When do we say NO to venal politicians who are hypocrites, crying crocodile tears as they pretend to mourn the needless deaths even as they shake hands and share beds with gun advocates? Why are we so blind to the increasing deterioration of the road we have chosen, the suicidal leap awaiting us? Why?
Either we act promptly and meaningfully, putting aside those who spout the ugly excuse that the killer was legally entitled to buy those tools of death, or we condemn ourselves and our country - and inevitably the world as well - to final death, certainly of life as we know it - or knew it.
NO to those who advocate accepting schools and the children within as legitimate targets which need strengthening! NO to those who push for more guns as the antidote. Think of the excitement every day, then the boredom, as we have duels at noon on every street corner, 24/7/365. Think of the uncertainty of life and the brutalization of that life which would be - and indeed are becoming - true.
Enough already. Throw out those who spout falsehoods, reams of 'sympathetic' words which contain no value at all, other than danger. Demand that we remove the growing threat of violent and determined efforts to overthrow our government, our system of democracy. Deny those who would invoke the name of G-d, to worship at the feet of false gods, as they justify the wrong, the so massively wrong!
NO!!! NO! ENOUGH! PLEASE?
The blood of our brothers and sisters, the blood of our children, cry out from the blood soaked grounds upon which they fell.
We ARE our brothers' keepers.
We ARE the keepers of our own souls.
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