“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; …
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” —Rudyard Kipling
These words from Rudyard Kipling are something we all should remember. Today, our nation is in chaos.
Chaos from the southern border and the court’s waffling and constitutional ignorance. Chaos due to the influx of aliens into sanctuary cities and their laws about housing. Chaos from our broken election systems.
With many people losing their heads of all of this, many times blaming the people who want to fix it, it would be easy to join the crowd in their screaming and finger-pointing simply. However, if we can keep our heads, we can see there are ways out of the various forms of chaos we are suffering through. However, to do this will require more Americans to act like men and women rather than children. A feat I’m not sure we are prepared to perform.
Links and References:
https://www.owleyes.org/text/if-kipling/read/poem#root-2
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