When the philosopher Diogenes was asked, ” Why do you go around with a lighted lamp in broad daylight”? He confessed, “I am looking for an honest man”.
Can I assume there is none among us that has never used one of the following excuses? ” He or she made me do it”, It’s not you, it’s me” ( usually to break up a relationship). ” Nobody instruced me to do that”, It’s certainly not my fault that happened”. Sadly, in today’s world being held accountable for one’s actions is a thing of the past.
I am not sure if the people supposedly in charge of the world irritate me the most, or the people who follow them like sheep jumping off a cliff. How gullible we have become to accept a person’s ideology on Monday and on Tuesday the ideology has rotated one-hundred and eighty degrees. Why on God’s green earth ( or used to be) other than financial gain would anyone run for public office. You do realize that every aspect of your life personal or professional will become open game weather true or false. ( Side bar: John Wayne-the Duke’s real name was Marion Robert Morrison) You telling me all of us do not have skelton’s in our closet.
Today’s world is so broken. Feel free to pick your topic, there are so many choices. I am reminded that Jesus was betrayed for thirty pices of silver. If all the rhetoric is correct in the world, I must ask the question, ” Is there an honest man among us”.
Be safe.
Joe's Bakers Dozen 
Your article makes me think about writing a standup comedy routine! Not for me, but for some powerful and gutsy woman who long ago discovered that THERE IS NO HONEST MAN IN SIGHT! And now, the same appears to be true of any woman in sight!
As a very senior and grateful woman of the past century … my responsibilities and opinions {to my family, church, community, and country) are now viewed as obsolete, outdated, unusable and unneeded by Politicians, Millennials, Gen-X’s, Immigrants as well as Bankers, Doctors, Caregivers, etc.
So I spend lots of time being very honest with myself … and frequently share that with a few folks who have come to expect it from me.
Keep on speaking and writing your truths.
Sincerely, Dot Greene
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