YOUR NEW BOSS, MITT?

Does Mitt Romney remind you of anyone? Maybe someone you worked for in the past? Not necessarily your immediate supervisor but his boss. You know, the "suit" from the VP's office. The guy who never did a day's labor in his life. The guy who gives you the reluctant "limp dishrag" handshake? The guy who walks through the plant and spy's you wiping the sweat off your forehead and runs to your boss and demands he dismiss you on the spot for loafing. The guy who looks at firing people as sport. We all know this guy. Clueless, aloof, has a mean streak and no sympathy for anyone working with their hands. Most of us have worked with our hands at some time in our lives and can recognize this guy. Is this the guy you want to be President of the United Sates?

ENOUGH?

Last week at the high school my son attends, they had a “lockdown and emergency evacuation drill” in the event there were ever to be a shooter in the school.
This drill, I think, was generally a good idea but what does the need to even have it say about the world we now live in?
To my knowledge, students bringing a gun to school and killing people is a rather recent phenomenon. What has brought us to need to run drills in case our children become potential murder victims while attending high school? This is total insanity! Our kids can no longer feel safe even in their classrooms. What’s next? Cops in every classroom? Arm the teachers? Arm the entire student body? Arm everybody?
We are becoming so desensitized by all the shooting and violence that surrounds us that we accept it as a fact of life. Where is the outrage? Why are we so docile? Why do we shout at each other over political smoke and snake oil while completely overlooking the horrible violence that surrounds us each day? When will we say collectively: enough?

SPECIES

As a species, we humans are a real piece of work. We have perpetrated violence on one another since Cain and Abel. We even have the audacity to think of ourselves as cultured and civilized while at the same time engaging in tribal warfare all over the world.
Some have managed to twist our bibles; you pick the religion, and interpret what was intended as a moral compass into justification to hate and kill. Throughout history our leaders have understood how to play us against one another in order to gain wealth and power. Nothing has changed but the sophistication of our weapons. We can now kill more people than ever with less effort than ever before.
It has become easy for those in power to influence millions overnight. They continue to play upon our fears. They continue to point out who we should hate. We continue to fall for it. How much longer are we going to remain so gullible? How much longer are we going to blindly follow these hate mongers?
Not only are we barbaric, we are intellectually lazy. If we do not search for and speak truth to the powerful, we are doomed to follow them right to the gates of whatever you envision as hell. By then it will be too late.