Lacking all decency

I just finished reading Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s novel Blindness, about what happens when a whole population goes blind and desperately strives to find food. There is a breakdown of human dignity and decency for fellow human beings.

They trample each other and quickly degenerate into animal behavior. I see parallels in the attitude of those who are fearful of sharing the American pie with Syrian refugees. We don’t need presidential candidates who whip us up into a state of fear and selfishness. Have we become blind also?

This story was originally published November 29, 2015 at 8:43 PM with the headline "Lacking all decency."