COLLINS: Simon and Garfunkel didn’t get it quite right
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL but haunting songs ever was Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence. Given when it was written, it speaks to lost hope. The end of the Vietnam War, the start of a period of uncertainty in the economy. It was a time when we isolated ourselves from others and were the worse for it. The lament of someone walking alone with just their thoughts of doom and gloom gives little confidence in our future.
These days, as I lay at home in the middle of the night trying to sleep, hearing no sound, I liken it to a column I read recently comparing the silence to the sound of our allies abandoning us as we fight the former best friend now trying to annex Canada through economic pressure, huge tariffs and a lot of bullying.
Not long ago, similar action by one country against another would have prompted outrage and pushback, but today, all is quiet because everyone fears the Donald. He is so unpredictable, we have no idea what he will try next. And so the world stands silent and Canadians who stood beside their allies for over 200 years are now left stranded to fight alone against a tyrannical dictator who seems to have only one plan — world domination.
And while his asinine ideas change almost every day, eventually one or two will catch on but because he has so many incompetent department heads, victory will be virtually impossible. Spoils for the winner, whoever that might be, will be sparce at best.
