Once again I am appalled, embarrassed, frustrated and horrified about the political debates I have been witnessing. The way these men in their bespoke suits strut up to the waiting cameras after another night of negotiating their pole positions in the endless power game (how do they keep awake? speed? cocaine?). Do we in all seriousness want to argue that over 500 million European citizens are unable to cope with two or three million refugees, that we are overstretched? That the burden is too much? It frightens me how politicians treat human beings fleeing from war, political persecution or poverty like annoying flotsam that can be piled up somewhere far away hoping that it will vanish all by itself. Just as long as we don't have to care.
Oh shit. There is no refugee crisis, there is a European irresponsibility crisis.
What's that old saying? 'There are none so blind as those who don't want to see.' Seems to fit somehow.
ReplyDeleteYour first sentence made me think you had been watching the Republican debates in my good ol' country the USofA. What has happened to our world? I don't understand anymore. There is a world-wide selfish, psychopathic crisis of the very rich and powerful.
ReplyDeleteWhat Robin said! And by my understanding, the USA *should* be taking in ALL of the refugees as it was our political WTFery that created ISIS and all this mess in the first place.
ReplyDeleteDo you think we'll ever realize there is no 'us' and 'them'? We're all one, a big web of life, each of us a tiny strand. I truly believe it.
What Robin said. And what Ajax said too. Most of all, what you said.
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