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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Kerry once famously asked ...
... re Vietnam: Who will be the last man to die for a lie?
The question now is: Who will be the first child to die for the lie that its safe to re-open schools in the midst of a pandemic?
Will the first child to die of Covid-19, after contracting the disease in his third grade classroom, be awarded a posthumous presidential Medal of Freedom?
Will his parents be invited to a White House dinner of Big Macs and KFC in recognition of their willingness to sacrifice their own child for Trump?
Will said childs photo be plastered all over Trump re-election ads, lauded as a young patriot anxious to give his own life in order to see the man who caused his death re-elected?
We are living in a time when all-of-the-above is not impossible in fact, all-of-the-above is incredibly probable.
denem
(11,045 posts)I think is the quote.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Strange. I had a dream about him last night. He was a professor in a class I was taking and I fell in love with him. I don't know why because that is not something that would occur to me in reality.
It was a very bizarre dream and very detailed, the part I am telling you is only the summary, but it was just so surreal.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)president. He commanded respect as Sec of State. Of course, being highly intelligent, the gop HAD to destroy his chances, to install yet another sub-par one of their own. I always had the greatest respect for Kerry, and everything he did.
CatLady78
(1,041 posts)Skittles
(153,212 posts)listening to Betsy DeVos' interview just made me feel sick, these folk just DO.NOT.CARE.
And as someone pointed out, how do kids self-distance while doing active shooter drills? This is the world repukes are creating for children.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)cstanleytech
(26,332 posts)12 and consider switching a lot of them to remote home schooling via school provided tablets with WiFi and cellular built in.
planetc
(7,841 posts)At the age of 20-something, he would not have accused the entire U.S. government of being liars, although some of them certainly were. He was trying to offer the government as much dignity as he could as he urged it to get the heck out of Viet Nam. Almost certainly elected president, best known now for two new political terms: flip-flopping, and Swift Boating.
bigtree
(86,006 posts)...so right, Nance.
Tragic that republicans (and the privileged and largely unaffected) just don't seem to care.
Extra kudos for the John Kerry quote analogy.