Isn't It Obvious?

And so here we are, exhausted by the divisions, the frustration, the rage and our loneliness in a sea of madness few even see.

Isn't it obvious? Of course it is. So what's obvious? That there are sharply different views on what's obvious.

Psychiatrist-author R.D. Laing noted back in 1967 as the Vietnam War raged that what was obvious to President Lyndon Johnson--that the war had to be prosecuted lest the Democratic party lose congressional seats in the 1968 election for being "s…