The Ambivalent State of People Today…Chaz Palmonteri once opined “nobody cares” in the movie “Once Upon a Time in America”. It was in reference to Mickey Mantle declining to sign a young boys autograph.Today there is so much ambivalence it is shocking.On Sunday Emari Demercada fumbled the ball on the goal line in a game between his Arizona Cardinals and the visiting Tennessee Titans.No one hit Emari he just dropped the ball.A Titans cornerback fell on it and Tennessee recovered it and got a touchback.The Cardinals were leading 21 to 6 at the time and they wound up losing this game by one point 22 to 21.In large urban cities people walk over dead people on their way to work.Often it is several hours before anyone is notified of this kind of tragedy.As the saying goes if you do not care who will.I cared enough to write this.So much for the ambivalent state of Americans.After all we elected a president who is so larcenous that he makes Huey Long and Jim Traficant look like choir boys.If we ever decide to give a darn maybe we could turn our fortunes around for the better.

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