If you designed a banner declaring, “The world is full of crazies” and ran it up the flagpole, assuredly, I would salute it.
On the other hand, as Veterans Day approaches, I realize the world is also full of opportunists – opportunists who devalue the dangers faced by the nation’s military personnel.
We’ve all witnessed it with increasing frequency: some office-holder, bureaucrat or celebrity (a) gets pushback for a totally outrageous statement or (b) finally gets busted engaging in some flavor of financial/political/sexual skullduggery.
Instantly, they switch from time-honored “fight or flight” mode to patented 21st-century “play the victim and shoot the messenger” mode.
“Death threats! Take my word for it! I’m receiving death threats ever since they misrepresented my humanitarian work surgically attaching ostrich legs to week-old kittens! My second family gets death threats, too. And my uncle who passed........