Orange Menace

 

October 22, 2024

The Orange Menace visits Asheville, to interfere with recovery efforts and draw attention to himself. Part of me is at peace about the election, determining that a treasonous felon rapist ignoramus blasphemous lying walking embodiment of Gluttony cannot possibly, once known, be elected president. On the other hand, my continued astonishment that nearly half of all Americans favor him despite daily confirmation of his inhumanity. Is inhumanity what we want? It’s possible. People in the past have accepted or welcomed inhumanity– but not, I think, when it was so clearly visible. His re-election means the end of civil society in America. You could say that to his supporters and they wouldn’t care. They want something else, not civil society, not facts, not Democracy. Is it revenge they want? Revenge on whom for what? Revenge that their lives didn’t turn out as they thought they were promised? Revenge on those who know more and do better? Revenge on an “elite” class that wouldn’t even recognize itself as such, and is known only to its enemies? I don’t know. Deception, malignancy, stupidity are the only reasons to vote for the beast. Setting aside the stupid and the malignant, you should be able to reason with the rest, but reason is one of those things that belong to the “elite” and must, therefore, be rejected. Election night I shall turn off all media and go to bed as drunk as I can be. 

Planting and mulching.