After yesterday’s satirical Blog I didn’t think I would say anything else about the hysteria surrounding the Ebola threat, but then Paul LePage, the enigmatic Governor of Maine, got involved.
That’s when the first line of the poem “If” by twentieth century English poet, Rudyard Kipling, came to mind.
“If you can keep your head when all about you…are losing theirs…”
Indeed.
The question is, are there enough people in our country, including a sufficient number of political leaders, who have not lost theirs to prevent our country from being completely overtaken by the kind of irrational fear President Franklin Roosevelt warned against in his 1933 Inaugural Address?
What say ye?
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Sadly, we are likely going to repeat many attributes of the 30s again …. a century later!
That is precisely what we need to avoid. But it is a struggle to hold on to hope.
I think there are quite a few of our “political leaders” who thrive on that fear because it helps them get elected or re-elected. They have long forgotten, or probably never knew, Roosevelt’s warning about fear.
Yes, holding on to hope for wisdom, courage, and strength in our leaders is tenuous, at best. And we keep electing and re-electing them. We have a chance to change that this coming Tuesday, but I am not optimistic.
Neither am I. Makes you wonder what people think about, or if they think at all.