Sometimes it takes the initiative of outsiders/kids/whoever to shake the professional politicians awake and to force them to take action.
In my era Band Aid (1984) - run by a bunch of long haired gits - turned 'business as usual' on its head. Magnificent work.
The spark of humanity still burns in the young.
I am always reminded by what Cynthia Ozick wrote (in relation to the Holocaust):
Indifference is not so much a gesture of looking away--of choosing to be passive--as it is an active disinclination to feel. Indifference shuts down the humane, and does it deliberately, with all the strength deliberateness demands. Indifference is as determined--and as forcefully muscular--as any blow.
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