There has always been a divide between the ruling and political classes and real people. And never is that divide more evident than during times of war and conflict.
THEY declare war and drag US into battles they have no intention of fighting themselves. When they say “WE are at war,” what they really mean is that YOU are at war. They’ll be over there, quaffing champagne at the taxpayers’ expense, until it’s time to go on TV and claim “OUR” victory. Prime ministers, presidents, and kings would, I’m sure, be a little less trigger-happy if they were required to pull the trigger themselves.
But that disconnect between them and us does not begin and end with war. Here in the world of demolition and construction, we too are part of the “Royal we”; expected to do the hard work and embrace the danger while someone else takes the credit and the glory.
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