Certainty

I'm fairly convinced, at this point, that an awful lot of politics, and too much of life, is the long psychodrama of people certain that they must be right. About everything, no less. And who are desperate for the power to back up that all too certain assertion.

Many people die on that alter. Many others are hurt, manipulated, or otherwise maltreated. All of us are poorer for it.

The question is will we settle for it.

How sad if the answer to that question were yes.