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Who’s To Blame?
Who isn’t?
“Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on the planet.” Lemmy
Do we even have great leaders anymore? Those years of profound words and deeds, now sit like totems without any serious admirers. We don’t see our leaders as godlike as we did with Roosevelt and Eisenhower. They were warriors, and after them came something slightly less.
There were still good deeds and encouraging words, but they were sullied by opposing parties.
Good became something unaffordable, a luxury that was dragging us down. Departments for good were bloated. Spending on things like clean air and clean water, a ridiculous assumption.
And what happens when we don’t hold them to account? They grow wild with entitlement. They forget their place.
To the untrained ear, it seemed the opposition was right. They knew where the blame belonged. Inflation was simply people taking what they didn’t deserve. And what happens when we don’t hold them to account? They grow wild with entitlement. They forget their place. They run through streets, endangering otherwise safe neighbourhoods.
From there, it was nothing to blame the immigrants, the transgenders, the women. Was an air traffic…