I know I should be afraid of the imposition of Sharia law in the United States, or the Black Lives Matter sign on my neighbor’s yard or the genital equipment of the person next to me in the men’s room.
I know I should be safe-guarding my little bit of homeland from another shooting by a Muslim like the one that occurred in San Bernardino in 2015. I know I should be afraid of all those who I am led to believe are taking our country away from us.
Yet, I have a feeling that to do so would be to take my third eye off the greatest threat — the takeover of democracy and human decency by the corporate world with its familiar, the military-industrial complex.
Who sent jobs overseas, who moved factories abroad, who destroyed unions, who cared not a whit about their effect on the environment, who have been attempting to distort the democratic process with their big dollars?
When corporations were characterized as people, what did we as people become? If you are feeling like No Lives Matter, including your own, focus on who really threatens us.
It’s not the latest source of frenzy on the news; that will fade and be replaced by another threat next week. Focus on the more insidious danger from the corporate control of the economy and our lives.
Michael Sherry
Easthampton