The lesson from all fails:Ebola, Secret Service, Guns, Isil, Sandy Hook, H.S. football deaths, G.W.
bridge traffic, Fukushima. We all assume that the "experts" in any given situation are much better than the average person at their job.
We assume the people in any white house admin can do things we mere mortals can't. Like immigration, ebola, security, Isil, Syria, health care.
We assume local experts like police and teachers and doctors can prevent things like school shootings and 911 and Ebola and Sandy Hook Elementary, and Hurricanes and Sandy and Katrina disasters.
Workers in nuclear reactors will never mess up and equipment will never fail.
We all go around deluding ourselves that "they're" keeping us all safe, and that our regular routines are "safe" and we shouldn't be expected to have to tolerate any change in our normal lives because "the experts" are all taking care of us.
We're all children, thinking Daddy and Mommy are omnipotent.
Then, when reality strikes, we're all in shock, outraged, and demand that heads roll.
The longer I live the more I see that when nothing bad happens, it's just that there aren't that many bad people/viruses/storms out there, and we just got lucky, and took that for granted. I'm not saying that there aren't any good, hard-working people working for the public good. Of course there are. They're just not miracle workers. They're limited humans who might or might not be able to keep your standard of living unaffected, try as they might.
Politicians are weak, doctors are overworked, teachers are unarmed, and no one has spent the money to sufficiently protect us from hurricanes. Because we don't want our taxes raised. We don't have the stomach to occupy the whole middle east, so, it's going to continue to be a mess until we do. That would redistribute the world's wealth from the west to the east, and no way are we going to tolerate that financial loss. Ultimately it's not any one presidential administration that can't solve our problems: It's our own unwillingness to tolerate the costs to ourselves, and the politicians know it, and use it for political hay.
So, we live in our delusion until fate chooses a specific local target, and whammo! Those local people learn the hard way that "mommy and daddy" have no better idea than we do and no more resources or expertise, and that really, we're all open for catastrophe. Until that happens, we shouldn't put so much trust in "them", we shouldn't believe that we've been untouched because of how we deserve our wonderful, unruffled lives. We should appreciate that up until tragedy strikes, we've just gotten lucky, and that we're no different from those who do have had tragedies befall them.
The whole country/world needs to grow the hell up and wake up and take responsibility.
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