- Our election process is now a reality television game show about who can deliver the best applause line.
- I am consumed by terror about ISIS killing me and I can’t think of anything else.
- Our election is totally about who can kill ISIS the best. Who is the leader that can deliver us from our terror?
I still don’t have perspective on this, so I google causes of death per year and I get: Illicit drugs 46,000Motor vehicles 35,000Gun violence 33,000Alcohol 29,000Cannabis 0Suicide 41,000Tobacco 556,000Aspirin 450 Terrorism 30 in the last ten years The most recent numbers I found were for 2013, so they’re somewhat dated, but not terribly. The pace of terrorism is picking up. Of course we need to do something about it. But I just can’t understand why our hair is on fire. Why is every other issue we face irrelevant compared to defeating people in another part of the world, when the rest of the people in that other part of the world can’t even come to any agreement to defeat them? ISIS is a problem for us, but so are a lot of other things. ISIS is a GIANT problem for the other people in the region. Why aren’t they leading the attack?