Why Aren't You Helping? (A Parable)

During our current president's administrations, he has quite consistently behaved in an America First manner.  In practice, "America First" has meant tariffs, browbeating, berating, and bullying of countries we've considered allies for decades.  We managed to piss off Canada!  CANADA!!  Do you know how f*ck3d your behavior has to be to piss off a Canadian!?!  It'd be easier to get the Dali Lama to lose his temper.  We've been behaving like the bratty rich kid who threw a temper tantrum when he got a Ferrari instead of a Bugatti for his birthday.  Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, where we teamed up with Israel to bomb Iran back to the stone age.

Let me share a parable:  Once upon a time, the high school bully decided to take on the crazy kid because the bully's toady said the crazy kid was going to jump the bully after class.  The bully was wildly confident that crazy kid would drop in one punch.  Instead, the crazy kid started throwing haymakers, with the occasional punch landing on kids standing in the circle watching the fight.

The crazy kid hadn't landed any real punches on the bully, but the bully was really surprised that his precision punches hadn't rendered the crazy kid unconscious.  On the contrary.  The crazy kid wiped his bloody nose on the back of his hand, licked the blood, and smiled at the bully.  From there, the crazy kid said "Oh dude.  I'm not gonna quit.  I'm gonna keep fighting.  And for those of you watching, I'm gonna keep delivering haymakers, so you might get punched."

The bully was taken aback.  Oh $h!+, he thought. This isn't what I expected.  He turned to the people in the circle watching the fight and said "Dudes, you need to help!  Can't you see he's punching you too? Why aren't you helping?!?"  All the while, he failed to realize that the people watching the fight hated him as much as they hated the crazy kid.  They didn't start the fight, and it was the crazy kid vs. the bully!  Why would they help?  After all, 1t's a lot more fun to stand by and watch the show, even if you receive the occasional wild punch.

Here ends the parable.