When you have those running from their shadows running the government, you have a government that isn't running well.
A government that chases shadows will never govern properly. If you were the enemy, and you wanted to destroy America, you would get it to chase shadows. Sometimes, I wonder if that isn't what is happening to us.
Speak of a deep state, and chase it. Speak of George Soros as the Anti-Christ, and chase after that demon. These are the ghosts, so to speak, and a government that believes in ghosts will never function properly.
When you see the press, do you see the enemy? In your mind's eye, do you turn the media into some evil spirit? Those who see their own shadow only to flee from it are much the same.
They create enemies out of shadows. They look into the night, and monsters jump out at them.
They look under the bed for ghosts, and they chase the ghosts of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
There are some of them who go even further. They give more credence to the National Enquirer than they give to their own Intelligence Community.
A nation that chases its ghosts will be less likely to chase material foes. It might not acknowledge that racism still exists. A nation deluded looks past its actualities.
So confused by what is and what it not, the people of such a nation will not even recognize the real enemies. They will spot those enemies and say that it is they who are the ghosts. They will confuse the real for the ghosts and the ghosts for the real. No racism here, they will say, so if you see it, is is only a ghost. Science might try to tell them that climate change is real, but the world will still be flat to them. They will say it is actually climate change that is the ghost.
Give them beggars from Central America, and they will see ISIS terrorists. Is this not seeing ghosts? Does not such a country govern out of a fear of its ghosts? If you chase away the immigrants because they are all criminals and murderers, are you not governing from a sense of fear?
False fear.
Are you not being irrational? Yes, criminals will be among the immigrants, but not every immigrant will be a criminal. If you see criminals in all of them, you are seeing ghosts. And, if you lock them all out, you are governing out of a fear of ghosts.
Yes, there are people who believe in ghosts, and I do not know but what some ghosts exist. There are those who believe in alien spaceships, and I do not know enough of the matter to know but what some alien spaceships might have visited us (though, I doubt it).
But, for the most part, a ghost is an imagination, and an alien spacecraft is a spacecraft that's not touched our skies.
Can I ask you this: If we can see that an individual person can turn irrational, why do we suppose it cannot happen to a segment of society? Do we say an individual is susceptible, but it will never happen to a large group of people? Why not? If it can happen to one, it can happen to many. A nation will never be so deluded? I wish it were all so easy, but we should look around and wonder that things are not that easy.
When I look around, I wonder if that saying is not correct -- the one that says, we're all a little bit crazy. I wonder if we are not all a little bit crazy -- as a society, as a whole.
Yes, look around and see if we've not gone a little bit haywire. Another saying has it that you are only as good as the company you keep.
So, what of us, then? If we are choosing ghosts for our company, what has become of us?
Note: Slight changes made 12/31/18.
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