Lancing an American boil

Suppose we gave a tax and few people came. Suppose we broke decades of “assuming” and just made people accountable for their actions. Suppose we increased our number of American stakeholders by increasing our number of taxpayers (vice tax dependents). Today’s and the decades old trend is otherwise. Suppose we broke with decades of associating happiness and self respect, with income. This last comment is prompted by a brother, retired multi-millionaire through the health care industry, who was observing a local family while we shared a lunch at a local eatery here on the Cumberland Plateau. To over generalize, he observed that while he was well-off, and they were dirt poor, they seemed happy, and he was somewhat envious of whatever it was they had and shared.

Boils are an old time term for pockets of infection that are painful in the pressure and pain associated with them. Today’s teenagers would call them really big zits. The old time way to treat them was to lance them to let them drain and relieve the pain and pressure, while the body then took over and healed the wound. Perhaps something similar politically is called for by today’s doctors of democracy.

While death is an option, many might want to take the medicine and method, today called the honest vote. An honest vote is what occurs inside the voting booth. While the medicine and method is painful, so is death in this case.