As I try to make sense of the current U.S. administration, the analogy that keeps coming to mind is cancer. Cancer starts out as a small anomaly, but then can quickly grow within the body, often with fatal consequences.<\/p>\n
The divisiveness, toxic racism and astonishing economic destructiveness of this administration parallels the effects of cancer. A once reasonably healthy body politic has been taken over by a particularly virulent and dangerous mutation.<\/p>\n
I was particularly struck by the ugly attack on the late Rob Reiner, who was not only a brilliant and beloved filmmaker, but also, in his non-professional life, a kind, generous, and deeply engaged American citizen. This fits the pattern.<\/p>\n
After all, one of the ways that a cancer destroys the body is to attack healthy cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I try to make sense of the current U.S. administration, the analogy that keeps coming to mind is cancer. Cancer starts out as a small anomaly, but then can quickly grow within the body, often with fatal consequences. The divisiveness, toxic racism and astonishing economic destructiveness of this administration parallels the effects of cancer. … Continue reading “The cancer analogy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28067,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}