The history of civilization dating back some five
millennia is one of unrelenting tyranny, rapaciousness, arrogance, and
stupidity. The players and the places changed, but the slaughter was
unremitting, the suffering broken only by occasional brief periods of peace,
good weather and crops. For most of the past, war, famine, and disease killed
most people.
During the famous soliloquy of Hamlet, he contemplates
taking his own life, saying “There's the respect that makes calamity of so long
life--for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong,
the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the
insolence of office…”
This list of woes neatly sums up the times in which we
live as Americans endure many of these same abuses from a President who seems
to enjoy displaying his contempt for them. He has plunged the nation into the
highest debt in its history, is using the government shutdown as a crisis to
divert attention from recent failures, and is flirting with a national default
that would create domestic and international havoc…all while blaming the Republicans,
the real end game…..To Read More…..
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