By now, if anyone has read a few of my blogs, you have figured out I am a great fan of science fiction, zombies, and books or movies in which it seems the end of the world is looming large…but just in the nick of time, the good guy wins, or the monster, space alien, or sick, sad, sinister, human is defeated. I have made my daughter a fan of all of the above and we often will compare notes on how corny the situation or just how real the events we watched or read REALLY seemed! (My daughter and I with some reluctance from my husband, her girlfriend and my son, have actually derived a Zombie escape plan…just so we don’t seem entirely crazy, we call it our Earthquake Evacuation Plan…but let’s be fair, most people in any dire situation of survival will respond as if they are being chased by Zombies). For me, the wonder of a Stephen King novel, a Vincent Price movie or an episode of the Twilight Zone, is that in the end god mostly triumphs over evil, or evil if discovered to be just one hell of a nasty prick in the buttock of humanity.
Pretend, is great, pretend is an invention of circumstances and situations in which plots, plans, and schemes may be rendered, but for the simple, the sake that pretends is NOT real, all and anything bad can be replaced with the comfort of a good, the coziness of safety and the coolness finality. But, with the latest massacre of innocents in a mosque in New Zealand, perpetrated by an insecure, arrogant, ignorant, insecure human being, a monster made of real flesh and blood, I have begun to worry, really worry, where the boundaries of pretend, and for REAL start and stop. Vladimir Putin was wise in supporting Trump to become the Commander-In-Chief of this nation, Putin was even smarter to realize that the Republican Party just gave lip service to how democracy was intended to be enjoyed, and Putin was a genius in educating himself on the defects of nation that has never come to terms with the US Civil War, and has never reconciled its deep-rooted distrust for the other. Employing all of this knowledge, Putin was impetus in picking at old wounds, encouraging new outbreaks of the virus of hate, and implementing the fallacies of Christian bigotry, and engaging in a conversation of superiority; which the leaders of this nation NEVER EVER really tried hard enough to discuss and solve…thus we have narcissist, sadistic, psychopath sitting in the Oval Office, so unsure of himself that he generates the proposition of US VS THEM.
Among my frustration with all that is corrupt and evil with Trump, and Trump’s deep disregard for the Constitution and basically any law which denies him more opportunity to be the grifter he is, IS that for some reason as Americans we are to pay him respect and actually acknowledge his position of President, pretending that Trump deserves the respect he so much denies anyone around him. I laughed (a sad, dark deep from the gut laugh) when Trump was asked about the White Supremacy terrorist act in New Zealand…what a waste of time…instead of asking Trump about the death of innocents…each and every journalist and reporter should have provided Trump with quotes, using Trump’s own words which incite riots, threats his political opponents, and the various lies based on nothing but some make-believe fiction. Trump IS the monster, and I am tired of pretending that he is anything else but the EVIL that smothers this nation and now the world!
