Apocalypse

Watching the US election unfold, it is apparent that the problems of this world are not going to be solved anytime soon. Climate change is being denied, xenophobic rhetoric is fueling hate, and no one seems to care about the lies that are being told. It appears that as long as money is being promised to be put in the voters pockets, all is good. The majority of people do not seem to care about the long term future as long as their wallets are taken care of over the short term.

 I saw Reza Aslan speak earlier this year. He made a comment to the effect that no matter the outcome of this election, America can never take the moral high ground again. The support that Trump has, win or lose, is an accurate reflection of who they (USA) are, it can no longer be glossed over or denied. What Trump has brought to the forefront has been there all along, hidden and, for the most part, ignored. Change begins with looking in the mirror.

 If I had any delusion that Canada was any different, Calgary brought me back to reality. CTV took a poll of Calgarians to see if they were willing to pay an extra $50/year in taxes to end homelessness. To be clear, the question was not to help homelessness, it was to end homelessness. Fifty percent of Calgarians responded "NO".

" Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain is hurled, but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world." - Roger Waters (b. 1943)