Deadly Distractions

Headline:The planet’s largest rainforest is on fire. Brazil and the world must halt the destruction before it’s too late.

Challenges on this order are what we should be leading the world in meeting. Instead we’re mired in distractions, owing to the sociopathic behavior of Trump, his enablers, and their counterparts throughout the world. The ship could be saved from sinking if crew members would unite to patch the hull, but they are engaged in highly important, but relatively minor, matters, oblivious to the peril they’re in.