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Richard Casselle's avatar

Our country is like a large, open lifeboat on a stormy sea. It sits low in the water, already heavily overloaded, and there isn’t enough water or food for those already aboard. There aren’t enough people rowing or bailing and some of the idle passengers want, in the name of misguided compassion, to let yet more aboard, heedless of the risk that it will sink the boat. There is no captain to steer the boat and impose the discipline that will ensure survival of its occupants.

Sometimes, although it seems harsh, compassion just has to be subordinate to pragmatism.

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Blair's avatar

"leering a smile at any fool who will let their very nemesis through"

I couldn't think of a more apt description of our current reality. Sadly, our leaders aren't fools. They know what they're doing. It's all intentional, though you probably know that even better than I, considering you were in the know long before me. Great poem, by the way!

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