Jean-Claude van Itallie
Shantigar Press
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1 min readOct 29, 2016

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HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD? — Hillary’s emails again — a paper demon.

Yesterday evening an intelligent friend was concernedly watching CNN. “I’m worried about Hillary,” she said. “The email thing might really do her in this time.” I was amazed. “Who cares about her damned emails?” I asked, paraphrasing Bernie. But as we surf the news channels, the heads are talking: “It’ll add to the perception of her being untrustworthy.” “Lock her up,” chant Trump supporters. Has the world gone mad? Hillary’s greatest crime: she used the wrong email server. If that’s all blood-thirsty Republicans can dig up on her, she’s the most honest politician ever. Contrast that with a dozen women coming forward with claims of Donald’s molesting them, Donald’s real estate firm racist, Donald cheating suppliers, Donald not paying income tax in 18 years, Donald’s shady dealings with so many. We hear Donald lying as he speaks yet when he labels Hillary “untrustworthy,”why does the label stick even on CNN ? Unconscious misogyny on a national scale is my guess. But let’s wake up. Just because Donald shouts a word and his obedient worshipers chant it again and again, doesn’t make that word true.

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Jean-Claude van Itallie
Shantigar Press

Playwright/performer/teacher/author of “Tea with Demons, games of transformation,”director Shantigar Foundation in Western Mass for healing/theatre/meditation.