After school shootings, disasters, mass gun casualties or any other trauma you will regularly hear from politicians on one side or the other, and more recently from neighbors and others that now is not the time for politics. You can also hear people in other settings say in a family gathering this is not the time for politics. I still always cringe because of course it is. In America we elect politicians. To do what? Pass laws and regulations. So everything thing involved in that trauma or conversation has to do with politics. Where that coffee came from? How much you paid for it (import/export taxes)? Whether the dairy product you added to it was safe? How many chambers (in some states) were in that gun? Whether there was an effective fire alert system, when it was pulled? Whether the roof came off the building in that tornado, or whether it collapsed in that earthquake all have to do with local building codes. Where the bodies are buried? or could they be cremated? What constituents a casket? All those including whether that car you drove to the funeral had airbags, its’ gas efficiency, whether the road had margins, guard rails, or bike lanes all have to do with elected officials passing those laws and regulations? Literally, if they were passed correctly, that roof would not collapse or be blown off. Those people would either be alive or dead? It all comes back to politics. You not thinking so….. is the problem.

© words by Daniel DeMarle 12/12/21