I am a MAJOR fan of Stephen King. (His novel ‘Salem’s Lot’ was one of my favorites, it was so scary that when I finished reading it for the night, I actually had to take the book place it in the top drawer of the kitchen drawer with something silver resting upon it for fear of what might creep out of the pages and attack me.) There are two main reasons why I find Stephen King so enjoyable to read, the first is that he lets you know exactly who the villain is, always in plain sight, and even so, you never quite understand just how much damage the villain can inflect to all of the so very naive other characters in his novels. The second reason is how horribly horrible his villains are and how they manipulate others to become almost as bad. It seems for me, Stephen King, believes in a division a choice in life we decide to take… you can be good or you can be bad, you can do the right thing or you can do one major wrong thing, and never see the light of good glowing in your life.
Today, the American public will get a glimpse of our governmental overseers, (the Senate), attempting to address the demise of democracy as directed by Trump and his league of sinister supporters. We should hear from James Comey, who must certainly find himself in the hot seat usually reserved for Hillary, and wonder if Mr Comey will spill his beans regarding Trump and if this beans will be refried or just discarded by a partisan panel or a panel of and by the People (Not the Corporation type of People.) By now, there is so much overwhelming coincidence (It is really evidence, but since its all about politics anyway, we pretend its here-say) to assume who the villain is…and so much coincidence (Evidence, I say, EVIDENCE) by RNC and their leadership in enabling the villain all we have to wonder, as in a Stephen King novel, will the townsfolk believe the truth or will they be hoodwinked by one of those (Please God set a term limit) GOP Senators who will shrug his red, white and blue shoulders, and slowly say but Mr Comey that is your word against Trumps’s. (And every televangelist worth his first million dollars has sworn Trump was sent from Jesus), so who are you going to REALLY believe!!!
Stephen King is so good at keeping the reader on the edge of his/her seat, we all know how bad the situation is, we all know there are good guys, we all know that evil seems to have no limits, and we all know that even what we think is the next thing to happen in a Stephen King novel, it quite ends up the way we assumed it might. I am not sure what is next. On Wednesday the four Chairmen of the four highest ranking national security agencies in America refused to answer a yes or no question about Trump’s interference in dealing with Russia…I am hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel, but then I think about a Stephen King novel, and know if the bad guys gets it, IT usually happens right before the last two words in his novel, THE END
