The Devil’s in the Dermis

In support of evil

Three additional stories about Charlottesville.

The aftershocks.

“It’s easy to criticize, but I can tell you this, 80% of the people here had semiautomatic weapons,” McAuliffe said.

80-fucking percent!

The police were afraid to serve and protect? You can thank the NRA and feckless politicians for that, thank them for evoking that kind of fear, thank them for promoting and championing the notion that anyone who wants a semiautomatic weapon — for his F-150 or to sling over his shoulder and take to the mall, town square, Target, mailbox, or a university quad — is constitutionally entitled to have one. Remember when people like this, people who supplied the means, held the flashlight (or Tiki torch) and provided the cover for such mayhem were called accomplices?

Now, they’re the GOP base?

Enter the arms race

The Oklahoma Insurance Department spent more than $180,000 on high-tech shotguns, bulletproof vests and seven police-package vehicles that agency officials say were needed as part of its expanded focus on criminal insurance fraud.

We now have armed insurance agents protecting society against those who — what? — cheat on their deductibles and take their Nissans to an unauthorized body shop.

Your well regulated militia, America.

As for the man, James A. Fields Jr., who allegedly murdered Heather Heyer by driving his car into her, he now has, if not God, than the law in many states on his side.

This is not just a handful of sociopaths living out a 4chan meme. Across the country, Republicans legislators have attempted to codify the idea that protesters surrender their rights when they stand in the road. A new bill approved by the state House will legally protect motorists who hit protesters blocking the road — as long as they “exercise due care,” according to The News & Observer in Raleigh.

Motorists exercising “due care” as they mow down babies in strollers, grandmothers in wheelchairs, and clergy on their knees praying makes it art.

How does The Onion stay in business? Satire isn’t dead — it just can’t keep up.

This is America’s wound, this mind-boggling evil, and for it to fester, it needs to be kept away from antiseptic, antibiotics, and the light and its pathogens must be exposed to constant contamination.

Someone has to do that.

This guy, for one.

According to Watters, Trump did not need to address the issue of white supremacy because the “left-wing radicals who have terrorized this country,” were the bigger problem.

To finish his segment, Watters said, “America is not a racist nation, it’s time we stop acting like it is,” while then looking straight into camera and teasing two incredibly racist segments which stereotype Black people.

There are others like Watters — worse, even. Some beyond comprehension.

It’s all poison, though.

Nazism, white supremacy, bigotry, fear, misogyny, anti-Semitism in America. It takes a village.