I don't usually post political material here. This is a place of worship and Pagan fellowship. However, the man who is about to become our vice president is a dangerous and destructive man. His religion is his excuse for hate, cruelty and demagoguery. All I am saying here is beware.
"Let me say to begin with and without equivocation, don't let the political establishment, of either party, or the shills in the mainstream media
convince you that alternative journalism is the same thing as false journalism. For the most part ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN
and certainly Fox are propaganda machines not news sources. They embarrassed themselves mightily during
the election. First, by promoting a man
who is now determined to shut them out; secondly, by being smugly wrong about
everything; finally, by refusing to own the nightmare their arrogance and blatant
stupidity has helped to engender. With
the exception of a handful of people – Maddow, Melber, Hayes, O’Donnell and the
Williams boys, Brian and Pete, to name a few of the best – journalism died with
Cronkite.
Having said
all of this, anyone who isn’t familiar with the premise of the following
article by “The Intercept” might be shocked to know that there is no Santa
Claus. I have said before and will say again, Mike Pence is a greater menace
then Trump. The latter is a carnival
barker, a buffoon, a cheap stage prop who will stumble about making rambling speeches,
showing off his wife and engaging in warped performance art, while men like
Pence, Bannon and General Mike Flynn do their best or worst.
For his
part, Pence is a religious fanatic, a zealot of the “My God is the only God”
variety. He practices Christianity with
an emphasis on Old Testament values like vengeance, bloodletting and
bigotry. Pagans will be at real risk in
his America, as will anyone who doesn’t conform to his constipated moral and world
views.
So, add
Pagans, Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, of course Muslims and many others
to the swelling ranks of people for whom the Bill of Rights will be rewritten
with the proviso – Need Not Apply. As
our LGBT brothers and sisters may feel the need to step back into the closet,
and our undocumented brothers and sisters the need to step deeper into the
shadows; women may need to brace themselves for the back alley where people
with unclean hands and dirty instruments do surgery that was once safe, and
Pagans may need to take off our jewelry while stepping into basements and
windowless rooms to perform ritual.
These are
the wages of apathy, of forgetting that freedom isn’t free and democracy
requires thought, education and work.
For all of those who put party over principle, forgot who they were supposed
to be working for or who weren’t paying attention during the election season,
welcome to our nightmare, man; welcome to our Gestalt. How do you like it?
