This evening I’m feeling a lot of negativity, and I'm feeling it for a couple of reasons. First, there truly is no way to see the election of Donald Trump as president and the Republicans as in control of Congress as other than a total disaster. That that son-of-a-bitch will be president, and that his ass lickers control Congress, really does depress me.
Then there's the way that literalism may well may have already have destroyed Christianity depresses me, if anything, it depresses me even more than Donald Trump and his cult of personality called the Republican Party do, for faith is more important and more powerful than politics. Even in a Facebook group supposedly for progressive Christianity, people post moronic questions that are grounded in biblical literalism. So few people get it. Literalism has a stranglehold on Christianity that may already have squeezed all of the life out of it. Christian literalism is utterly untenable bullshit, and there just is no getting around that truth. And only a handful of people get it. It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that it is possible if not likely that not enough people are going to get it to save the faith from the extinction it faces. The loss of the Christian system of symbols and myths will impoverish humanity, because as long as there is a hope of reforming the faith away from literalism, Christianity has the potential to save the world. Not, of course, by forcing everyone to become Christian. That is something of which God would never approve. But by spreading Jesus’ gospel of love, justice, and peace for everyone Christian or not. By building the realm of God on earth, by spreading nonviolence, political, economic and social justice, inclusiveness, and universal salvation without clobbering people over the head with Christian dogma. Will that ever happen? I have no way of knowing. I’m sure I won’t live long enough to see whether it happens or not. The way nations, including first of all mine, fall for fascist authoritarianism and the lies in which it is always grounded pretty much kills any hope I might otherwise feel.
I need to say this again. I just can’t understand how this country could do it. I mean, there are no secrets about Donald Trump. His 34 felony convictions are public knowledge. So is the civil case he lost about sexual assault. So is his personal immorality. So is his constant lying. So is the fact that he cares only about and for himself and his billionaire backers to the extent that they give him money and lick his ass. To the extent that they want to destroy this country as much as he does, which far too many of them are perfectly willing to do to preserve their wealth, wealth most of them use only for themselves not for the betterment of real people. Not to solve the world’s myriad, horrific problems. So is the undeniable truth that he incited an insurrectionist mob to attack the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to subvert both the Constitution and the will of the people by staying in power though he lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square.
So I truly don’t get it. What is there not to see about this asshole? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He doesn’t even try much to hide what a despicable person he is personally. He lays his horrific political and economic plans out in plain view for everyone to see. And a majority of the American people put him back in the White House, which is way beyond my ability to understand. So I get depressed, and I guess actually knowing how it happened wouldn’t ease my depression. It might even make it worse. So I live depressed, and I don’t see a damned thing I can do about it. Shit!
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