NOTE:The title and much of the quoted text are from Jackson Browne's brilliant Before the Deluge

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

As we head into the abyss...

For far too long far too many of us have mostly ended up just going along with some of the worst acts against humanity, ever. Either in outright denial of reality or via superhuman feats of rationalization...or by being misled in one way or another, or by simple exhaustion, pummeled as we are by the constant torrent of media-borne propaganda.

To my brothers and sisters here at c99, a toast.

https://original.antiwar.com/martin_luther_king/2017/01/15/why-i-am-oppo...

Martin Luther King
"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York

A silver-lining from the pandemic appears to be that it's distracted the warmongers in the press, which has given President Trump more space to get our troops out of the Forever Wars.

The American People need to see that something is "possible" before they will support change. Let's hope more headlines like this will do the trick.