The opening essay in the latest issue of the New Yorker noted that a bust of Vaclav Havel was unveiled last week in a ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda. Havel was the first President of Czechoslovakia after that country obtained its freedom from Moscow's rule
The essay quoted from Havel's first New Year's address to the Czech people. He said that the years of oppression and tyranny had led the Czechs to live in what he called a "contaminated moral environment."
It occurs to me that describes the current condition in the U.S. very well. Would you call Mitch McConnell moral? Ted Cruz? The Koch Brothers? The House Republicans?
When people fear immigrants are bringing Ebola, when they would deny an abortion even if the woman dies, when they deride scientific evidence, they are living in a "contaminated moral environment. And we don't even have the excuse of emerging from years of Communist tyranny. We are doing it to ourselves.
And it will continue until people wise up.Too mamy people only care about themselves.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell that by how many stores are open on Thanksgiving and how many people go shopping, preventing those store employees from enjoying the holiday with their families. They fail to see that if nobody went shopping on Thursday, the stores would remain closed. The lure of saving a few bucks is more important.
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