Why can we all name more billionaires than living poets?
What if we demanded that people in a national or global spotlight offer a little verse before they can deploy stock options or run for office? Some perfunctory beauty before you screw us again or tell us how great you are?
Everyone can see that we are one click away from everything else. Why is it so hard to click into peace and decency?
It is a little more than unbearable to watch Marjorie Taylor Greene call for careful oversight of aid to Ukraine as if she were some zealous peacenik. Her agenda, after all, only demands people she will never meet must suffer more than she or anyone she has ever met ever will, or ever have. And this she calls for this in public and with pride.