Noah Barrett13 said:Once we get to the point where we’re ritually hanging hundreds of war criminals, corrupt politicians, profiteers, and crooked federal agents right in the middle of Times Square, then—and only then—can we really start worrying about soccer hooligans, kids tagging walls, or some drunk punk peeing in an alleyway and being tossed into a modern-day gulag.
If you look at the situation through a bit of a metaphor, all this whining over minor incidents feels a little like someone with terminal stage cancer obsessing over the common cold they caught yesterday... I mean, sure, a cold isn't nothing for someone that sick, but it’s really just a symptom of the fact that their entire immune system has already been wrecked by the cancer.
As the old saying goes, you can't clean a fish starting from the tail, and honestly, the tail usually just ends up doing whatever the head tells it to do anyway, albeit in its own messy way.
I suppose I definitely agree with the notion that this kind of chaos stems from a political and social situation that is, frankly, quite cancerous.
If we want to look at this metaphorically, I guess the current whining over these little incidents feels a bit like someone with advanced stage cancer being absolutely terrified because they caught a common cold yesterday... For a patient in that condition, a cold isn't exactly harmless, but it’s really just a symptom of the fact that their immune system has already been ravaged by the cancer itself.
Why isn't there any organized group of supporters out there beating back or dispersing the people who frequent those nationalist clubs where the mob gathers, or why aren't there organized protests against Clinton and the latest moves made by this Government?
My question is really more about why the people reacting to the ailments of our America don't target and dismantle the actual culprits, instead of going after the small fry or the local sports fans—or conversely, why they end up fighting amongst themselves, American against American?
The old folks used to say you don't clean a fish starting from the tail, and honestly, the tail tends to mimic whatever the head is doing—just in a slightly different way.
The ones
cleaning the fish are the ones at the
tail, the very people paying the highest price for today's politics of reconciliation and forgetting, along with all the
metastasized issues from both our recent and distant history.
Unfortunately, nobody seems to be organizing them in the right direction; instead, they are pitted against one another—I assume you notice that as well? 😢