by Ed Sperry, Col USAF (ret), Stevensville
What, I wonder, is significant or worthy of advocacy on today’s menu? I, for one, don’t have ‘climatitis.’ I don’t accept that the world is ending soon due to climate change. The climate has been changing since earth first became a sphere. Get over it and quit destroying our economy, works of art and other antics. Your climatitis infection is insignificant, not warranting the unbelievable attention it is receiving. Besides, you’re scaring the kids!
There seems to be another infection which I’ll call ‘alphabetitis.’ I flat don’t share the great concern being given to Trans, Queers, et al. They are fellow citizens, not some kind of great emergency. As they used to say when our Republic had the gonads to face real issues—“things are tough all over!” By the way, let’s get the boys out of the girls’ bathrooms!
There are other issues which are getting great outpourings of support, but which fail to warrant the constant antics and expenditure of private and public time and resources. However, to save space and tim, let’s focus on an issue that overrides all the furor referred to above.
I’m concerned that we never witness a crowd demonstrating against the raging effects of fentanyl upon our under 50 population. It is the greatest killer of these adults, overtaking heart attacks, cancer, homicide, suicide, accidents, and others. It’s not a raging political issue by the media, which is much more interested in the plight of trans and getting our pronouns straight.
Hey, guys! Look up. Our fellow Americans are dying at a rate of about 100,000 a year due to drugs. Fentanyl being the major villain at about 68%. It could be called a racist drug as it kills blacks at a greater rate than whites. Gosh! That alone should fill streets. In one year the killing exceeds the total of deaths in the Vietnam war.
Please, let’s demand more leadership dedicated to stopping this outrage. We could start with telling the Chinese to knock off selling the fentanyl to illegal drug producers. One could rightly say they are committing an act of war. They are making a cold war type attack with the cartels as their proxy. Close that damned border! Take out the cartels! Surely we can refocus and get our priorities in order. It is, in fact, a matter of life and death!
To paraphrase the words of that great swamp philosopher Pogo, “Stop swatting mosquitoes as alligators are biting us in the butt.”
Alan says
The truth is subordinate to the ideology. That’s why the kook left with their depraved minds cannot even differentiate gender.
Bill Stroud says
LOL…..’Stolen Election’.
Gomez says
“Hey, guys! Look up. Our fellow Americans are dying at a rate of about 100,000 a year due to drugs. Fentanyl being the major villain at about 68%.”
So about 68,000 a year are dying from fentanyl. That is horrible and we should do all we can do about that, including trying to figure out why people so desperately want to escape their lives through drugs in the first place. That said, more than 140,000 Americans die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth-leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Why no outrage about that? Alcohol kills twice as many Americans as does fentanyl. Your “concern” seems extremely selective.
Gomez says
“Have we lost our sense of values in the ‘swamp’?“
Yes, I think so. People who claim to be patriotic are now in favor of suspending the constitution. People who claim to be Christian spew hatred at anyone who doesn’t look, act and think exactly the same way that they do. People who are sons and daughters of immigrants now demonize those seeking a better life and wish to turn them away. And those who fancy themselves as free thinkers and individualists now resemble the cult at Jonestown as they slavishly worship their idiotic orange god.