“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Washington Post Headline, September 10, 2016
Who will Hillary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comment actually alienate?
The Dividing Line
I’m thinking of three thinkers, Clinton, Romney, Solzhenitsyn.
In the basket of deplorables, what percentage fits in?
Forty-seven, Romney said, are slackers, takers from the rest
Half of Hillary’s opponents are someone-phobic, at best.
If we rounded up the slackers, put phobics in a basket,
Put slackers on a moon-bound ship, and shot the basket past it,
Would the left-behind be better, more humble and productive?
It’s not a plan, just a thought, if not good, at least seductive.
But what if Solzhenitsyn got it right about our race?
We’d all be left with half a heart, the other half in space.