A day ago a friend told me of a couple she had known for years, college educated, altogether normal in conversation, who believed that Joe Biden, with the help of an undefined ‘they’, was manipulating the climate with contrails to make this spring cold and rainy. When my friend voiced skepticism, they sent her videos and testimonials from others who were convinced of Biden’s omnipotence and evil.
They were certain. They believed. They had evidence.
Their only answer to this ‘evil’, of course, was Trump.
Jesus weeps.
Even if President Biden somehow pulls out a win in November, I’m not sure the nation as presently conjoined can survive the torrent of morons and pleasant, outwardly normal, burn-it-all-down Jokers. The volume of their intellectual and moral imbecility has long since passed the flood stage.
If half the country hates democracy, places its faith in conspiracies, is enraptured by the moral sewer of Trump, and are ready to re-elect the most dishonorable man to have ever held the Office of the Presidency, eventually, they will gain power. Then, millions upon millions will drown. We cannot imagine how bad it will be.
How does one fight such an outpouring of the crackbrained and the deviant?
