Do Something

Leaders in Washington, do something. Not a chance. As if there were the slightest chance anyway of rebuking and punishing all the world's bad actors – a constantly growing crowd. On the other hand, outlaws tend to flourish in environments where the outlaws, actual or potential, real or otherwise sense the sheriff to be furthest away, and perhaps to be most kowtowing to their purposes. In an age of general and deliberate non-judgmental mentality, with punishment a rarity and offense seldom succeeded by action, brigands flourish. The cry for a "leader on horseback" to bring clarity, make the trains run on time, get the mail delivered, and so forth is eternal: as we would know if public education taught history with anything like the thoroughness that formerly prevailed in our schools. We get in these, what happens next moods, whenever things begin to go amiss. I fear we are there, again.