In a broken attempt to display toughness and strength, conservative leaders are damaging the political landscape. A lesson angry politicians should learn.
Anger is seen as strength, compromise as weakness. It’s bloody for the country and deeply harmful for the body politic. It stabs the soul and the psyche, and people really should know better.
But there was something punching away at him, an irritant that was causing pain and hurt. After a while he trusted me enough to share what it was. He had lost contact with his only child, a son, many years ago. As is common, the original cause had been magnified by time and distance. Two days later the nurse asked to see me. There was, she said, someone here for the patient. He’d asked for me to stay while he visited. Of course. And there he was. In his 50s, well-dressed, fit looking.
I offered to leave but they both said no. There I was, a stunned observer of beauty postponed. The tears dried, they spoke, tried to explain and understand why a serious but not invincible argument has led to two decades of loneliness and regret.
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