On the national body

The human body is a miraculous design that allows itself to survive and even thrive in almost any circumstance or challenge. When it is cold, we put on jackets, gloves, etc. When hot, we seek out shade and go to shelters where we have air conditioning. In meeting our physical challenges, just look at sports where records continue to fall and what was thought to be physically impossible is now commonplace. Advances in science allow us to move rapidly across our planet (and beyond), extend our life through medical breakthroughs, and hopefully create a better environment for our offspring to meet the never-ending challenges they too will face.

The U.S. can be seen as a larger version of a human body. When “We the People” work together, the U.S. can accomplish almost anything.

When the “right” hand goes around slapping the “left” hand and vice versa, nothing is accomplished. The other “bodies” out there (Russia, China, etc.) thrive on our disjointed flailing and even propagate this through their disinformation campaigns.

The U.S. brain, our government, should send signals to all parts of the “U.S. body” so that it moves about in a purposeful and coordinated fashion. Instead our “brain” spends precious time listening to this disinformation and propagating lies (I call it spewing flatulence), which results in a body in disarray. The spewers out there are many, I believe mostly on the right, causing our body to flail about, accomplishing nothing. We could ignore the flatulence but it’s not possible in this news-grabbing age. Gas-X is not the answer either. We simply need better people to be in our brain.

ANDY CONNAUGHTON

Vilonia