In The Village, Ivy Walker, the mostly blind beauty who sees more than those with sound eyes, asks of Lucius, the quiet young man who speaks little, but says much: “How is it that you are so brave, while the rest of us shake in our boots”?
Lucius Hunt replies: “I don't think of what might happen, only what must be done.
Today, Republicans stand with their backs to the future, with their hearts turned against the least of God's children, and their minds closed in fear of what might happen. Is it true that the country that defeated the Third Reich and the Empire of the Rising Sun can't provide a rational healthcare system?
Unlike the Republicans, President Obama did not, and does not, think of what might happen. He only knows and does what must be done with the supreme confidence in a country and a people that are ingenious, resilient, and industrious enough to do the right thing.
The United States is like The Village when it comes to healthcare.
Are we going to stand by our Lucius, or cower in fear of the imagined demons created by the far right, raised up as specters to keep us blind, unthinking, and behind our walls?
Loren M. Lambert © March 29, 2012
Lucius Hunt replies: “I don't think of what might happen, only what must be done.
Today, Republicans stand with their backs to the future, with their hearts turned against the least of God's children, and their minds closed in fear of what might happen. Is it true that the country that defeated the Third Reich and the Empire of the Rising Sun can't provide a rational healthcare system?
Unlike the Republicans, President Obama did not, and does not, think of what might happen. He only knows and does what must be done with the supreme confidence in a country and a people that are ingenious, resilient, and industrious enough to do the right thing.
The United States is like The Village when it comes to healthcare.
Are we going to stand by our Lucius, or cower in fear of the imagined demons created by the far right, raised up as specters to keep us blind, unthinking, and behind our walls?
Loren M. Lambert © March 29, 2012
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