02/07/2022
Dear friends,
We all know that when folks get together, to keep it peaceful we usually omit our religious or political views—unless you’re the type that just enjoys a heated argument—as when we’re angry or passionate about a subject, it goes farther than a civilized debate.
I think there’s a point we are ALL missing. (And this is coming from someone who just spent the last quarter of a century in a cage.)
Sure, maybe one President can convince big oil to take it easy on the American people better than the next. But if you asked some of our relatives in other countries what they think of five-buck gas, they would applaud it, as most European countries pay Eleven dollars a gallon. They sell it in liters there to make it easier to swallow. Sorta like the can of coffee (etc.) that used to weigh a pound but now it’s ten ounces and the same price.
You can thank big oil for all of this, and since the invasion of Ukraine, I can pretty much bet their dicks are harder than Chinese arithmetic. And we only get seven percent of our oil from Russia.
(I trade commodities from a cage, too.)
Then comes the Roe v. Wade issue, and they also decimated Miranda v. Arizona while no one was looking. It’s one battle after another, and the one percent get richer and stronger, while the rest foot the bill, do without, and just plain old suffer.
I don’t want to debate abortion via a tablet, but did anyone ever stop and think what’s going to happen when these clearly unwanted children grow up? I’m certain the Dept. of Corrections will do well…
But in my opinion, it’s not the politicians, nor the very broken system which is currently in place, it’s US as a whole! As long as we stand apart instead of united—as long as we worry only about only ourselves, instead of the elderly, infirm, or just those in plain old need, as long as our racial and economic divide keeps growing—guess what? Being an American is going to be far different than it was for our parents.
Divide and conquer. It’s the oldest trick in the book, my friends, and everyone reading this now has read about it countless times in one history book or another.
But WE can fix it with one word: UNITY.
It’s a word we no longer comprehend, let alone use.
Now, I will leave you on this closing note: My world is simply a microcosm of the free world; I once wrote that my world is just predators and their prey, a world of cold steel and concrete. When I hear alleged stone-cold killers sniffle as they watch the morning news, as we watch in horror as an old person gets pushed into the tracks, or hear about a war targeting innocent people while the U.S. snatches yachts instead of actually helping, we all really have to step back and think, what have we become?
What have we become…
Zap Tales
P.S. Just today, SCOTUS decided the EPA can’t regulate carbon emissions.