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Good Men and Women Are Doing Nothing, and It Shows
We need more.
“Just shoot them in the legs or something.”
That was our president a couple of years ago, talking about protestors, at least according to the former secretary of defense.
He also talked about bombing Mexico.
That’s not even the worst part.
The worst part is our secretary of defense listened to this rant, and decided to do nothing. He chose to keep it a secret, because it would make for a juicy tidbit in the book he was planning.
Even that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that nobody’s surprised. Nobody seems to care.
They should.
Good men and women aren’t fighting climate change.
Here’s a really timely quote:
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.
— John Stuart Mill
Bad men and women are triumphing right now.
