America needs some heroes. These days remind one of an old western movie. You know, the one where the bad guy has no moral restraint and holds his pistol to the heroine’s head. Despite the potential consequences, the hero drops his gun and yields. Righteous heroes, the ones bound by morality, do that.
Justice comes nonetheless. Sometimes through what the ancients
called a “deus ex machina,” literally
“a god from a machine,” or an unexpected solution to a problem or a contrived
ending to a story.
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The hero’s Quaker wife, who has lived a live
free of violence and has never held a gun, shoots one of the bastards from afar.
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The gun misfires.
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A distant sidekick solves the dilemma.
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The townsfolk converge to convince the terrorist
of his doubtful future.
America stands on threshold of disaster now. The fascists
who have pushed her to the edge have no moral compunction whatsoever against
pushing her into oblivion. Their long-range plans lie far beyond the borders of
a single country.
Those who would defend Democracy, only slightly less in
number, stand paralyzed by their opponents’ lack of morality-based restraint.
There will not be a deus ex machina described in the
history of our nation.
We need some good guys.
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