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A country’s vitality is deeply tied to the value it affords to human life in every form and condition, acknowledging the dignity endowed upon every human person by virtue of their very existence. The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to support, protect and cherish the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned.

You want to understand why Western infrastructure is falling apart while military budgets grow? It is not mismanagement. It is the correct functioning of the system. Infrastructure, roads, bridges, water systems, public transit, hospitals, schools, serves populations. Military spending serves contractors. In a political system where contractors fund campaigns and populations mostly don't, and where the ideology of the past forty years has systematically delegitimized public investment while celebrating private profit, the outcome is not a mystery. The bridge collapses. The F-35 program receives another decade of cost overruns and continued funding. The school crumbles. The base in a country most Americans cannot locate on a map receives its budget. This is not corruption in the sense of deviation from the norm. This is the norm. And the people who live near the collapsing bridge and send their children to the crumbling school will, in significant numbers, vote for the politicians who maintain this arrangement, because those politicians have successfully convinced them that the alternative is socialism, and socialism means Cuba, and Cuba has been the monstrous alternative for sixty years. The same island. The same fear. Recycled through every election cycle since before those voters were born. They have been voting against Cuba since 1962. The bridge has been collapsing the entire time. The genius of the rot is not that it deceives people once. It is that it hands them the same deception across generations, and they receive it each time as if it were new. As if this election, this candidate, this particular invocation of the island ninety miles from Florida is the one that finally justifies ignoring what is happening to the place where they actually live. Cuba didn't collapse your bridge. Cuba didn't close your hospital. Cuba didn't move your factory to a country where labor has no rights and then call it "free trade." Cuba has been under American embargo for six decades and has never once been the reason your water is undrinkable. But it will be on the television again next election cycle. And the bridge will still be there. Collapsing on schedule. While the contractor cashes the check.