Uncharted Water

There is a strange feeling when you sail into an area where you have never been before, but the country is headed that way. Will we end up right back where we started like Magellan did? Actually he didn't make the whole trip, but that is another story or allegory.  Do we want to end up in the same place?  When the pandemic is over do we still want to be without healthcare and a decent wage for everyone? Do we still want to live in a country where four people have as much wealth as the bottom half of the population?

If the virus is a wake up call it will be the best call we ever got.   Greed capitalism simply does not work.  People with the cheese are sitting on two hundred million dollar yachts in the Mediterranean while ordinary people are in food lines. The real virus that has brought us here is viral stupidity. We are no led by the most despicable president in history, and a major portion of our population is clueless.

The great depression ended because people were in pain.  World war two also helped.  Do people have to be slapped with hunger, and cold in order to awaken?  Apparently they do.  So too often things need to get worse before they get better.  Talk to a reformed drunk.  Things had to get worse so they could get better.  The other choice is just turn yellow and die.  My uncle took that route.  Is our country going to turn yellow? Yes yellow is the color of a banana republic.  Look at some of our cities. Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago.  People are living in slums that would rival South America.  It doesn't work anywhere. What? What doesn't work is letting a small group of people take as much as they want.  That is the lesson of the French revolution, the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolution, and the history of humans. When the rich are defeated often their heads roll. Do they learn, no.