Who is us?
Ah, Pogo! "We have met the enemy, and he is us." It wss funny-sad then, it is funny-sad now. How could three hundred thirty million good intentions go so wrong? How could seven and two-thirds billion good intentions go so wrong? I focus on us, us the UnitedStesians, the self-declared cream of the crop, the self-declared "exceptional" humans. How are we exceptional? Well, we have clean streets, but Canadians have cleaner. We're rich, but the Saudis are richer, and the people of Dubai may be the richest. We're democratic - except we never even tried for that; we did try to be a republic, and appear to have failed at that. We tell the biggest and the loudest lies? Maybe. I'll not argue against that. But anyway, us did it with good intentions. Us was gonna be good people. Us was gonna be clean people. Us was gonna be pretty people. Us was gonna be generous, kind, hospitable, and especially "nice" people. Us was gonna be, and us sometimes claim we made it. Us do. And us didn't. I think us proved the old adage about good intentions.
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