America the Dark

American Dark Ages

Darkness falls on compassion and reason

There’s an ancient saying, “As goes the king, so goes the country.”

Another old saying goes, “A fish rots from the head down.”

With bald cruelty and corruption behind the Resolute desk, society itself will be corrupted. There’s a real risk of meanness getting into even the kindest of hearts. For example: Hamid and I happened to be out and about right at noon. On Wednesday, the day after the election, there was a lot of traffic in our Trumpy rural farming town and Hamid, annoyed, wondered where all the people came from. I pointed out they were probably on their way to get lunch.

Then, the thought went through my head… I hope they choke on it.

In that moment, I felt hate. I’ve spent all my life never hating anyone, never wishing ill or injustice on anyone — not even my abusers. Hate… that is the biggest threat to getting through this nightmare. MAGA chose to become hate. That’s what we’re fighting.

We must not become what we’re fighting.