We Are All Responsible for This Mess

Yes, this is “who we are”

Karen Shiebler
Politically Speaking
4 min readMay 17, 2022

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William Shakespeare said it perfectly, at the very end of “Romeo and Juliet.” After the needless deaths of two young lovers and a crowd of other people involved in a terrible family feud, the Prince of Verona proclaims, “All are punished!”

All. Everyone is punished. Everyone is guilty. So why did he say that?

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Karen Shiebler
Politically Speaking

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com