Life is hard. We lose sometimes. We lose what we love. We lose friends, time, jobs, hope, faith.

Life is not fair. Winners don’t always deserve to win. Losers often do not deserve to lose.

We love those who don’t always love us.

We want the idea of fairness. But we also want to win even if we don’t deserve it.

We want love even if we don’t give it. And if we give it, we can’t control what is done with it. And we resent that.

So we seek the Leader who will fix everything. Great leaders inspire us to work together for it. But we often want the illusion of a Great Leader instead.

The one who promises us everything with no price to pay, no work to be done. The Easy Way. The scapegoat to stone. Without responsibilty for having thrown.

It’s hard to ge a grown up. Easier to have the illusion of adulthood while giving away our power to the one with all the easy answers.

And so we vote the easy way, against our best interests.

And, perhaps, we wake up. But it is easier to keep sleeping.