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What Price Is Enough For a Win

If I Stand for Blue and You Stand for Red, How Can We Both be Right?

When Your Speech Evokes Hate, and Excites Those That  Follow Your Message to Kill Me, and Those That Look Like Me.


How Is This Just or Right?



You Say You Stand for God, and Many Believers Seem to Follow Your Voice, But Where Does The Good Book Say To Kill Without a Cause?


IF You are Right and I am Wrong, Then My Voice Will Fade into The Night, Like a Small Pebble Sinking in a Large Pond or Lake.


But Let Your Yes BE Yes, and Your No BE No.


Why Do They Seem To Change With The Rising And Sinking of the Tide?


I Am But One Small Voice and Can Only Speak For ME, But I Want Peace, Love, and Unity.


Will The Ends Truly Justify the Means?


Does One Really Need To Tear ME and All Others Down, So That You can Rise?


Will The Broken Lives, Careers and Reputations, Be Able to Be Repaired by the End of November?


Will I Want to See Or Speak to You, My Neighbors or Family Members Ever Again After They Have Shredded My Life Today?



If You Want Peace, IF You Want Unity, and a Future Where Both You and I  Can Live Together, Then There Must Be a Better Way.


What Are You Fighting For?


Notches On a Belt, Wins in a Column, or Merely Your Place At the Top of the Heap, At Any Cost?


I ask  You Who Will Be Left  To Pick Up The Pieces, If All Lives Are Broken In The Wake Of Your Passing?


Sincerely,



Paul Cumberbatch




Author Paul Cumberbatch (September 30th , 2020)

Copyright © Paul Cumberbatch | Year Posted 2020

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Christopher Flaherty Date: 11/3/2020 4:24:00 PM Great question Paul What are they fighting for And do they even know themselves when they are sucked in that deep Not you or me or us. Why would anyone given it is a pointless thankless task wish to become President it's certainly not for the Pay Cheque is it especially if you are independently wealthy anyway. Or is it more about ego and personal prestige Login to Reply Christopher Flaherty Date: 11/3/2020 8:03:00 PM Does that make any sense to you Paul given most of us or the reason we go to work in the 1st place is not for the love of it but because they pay us to do it and it enables us to pay our bills. Like you said the math or numbers just doesn't add up . Unless you need the money and most politicians don't as they are already rich or wealthy Paul Cumberbatch Date: 11/3/2020 6:41:00 PM Which is true, because you spend over 20 million in advertisements trying to win a 450,000 a year job? That is the question.