What is this handbasket and where are we going?

 "The world is going to Hell in a handbasket," is what a lot of people are saying. And when you hear someone say that, you can't tell if they're a MAGAt or a libtard or something in between.

The MAGAts and the White supremacists and the Christian nationalists think the handbasket that's carrying us to Hell is gay marriage, abortion, non-Christians and socialists.

The libtards think it's the MAGAts, the gun nuts, the America-First bullies, the Evangelicals and the fascists.

The trouble is, the current state of affairs on this planet is not unusual. What's unusual is the long stretch of comfort and prosperity that White people have enjoyed for so long. Black people, queer people and poor people don't notice any change. It's always been this way for them. Every time they go out, they worry about being stopped, arrested, beaten up or killed.

Now we White people have to worry about that when we go out.

Let's face it. This is who we are. We are animals and Mother Earth is going to let us wipe ourselves out so she can start over.

The Secret Police Are Here

Rage churned in my gut, burned in my belly, burst into flame on my tongue. ICE is abducting 5-year-olds and using them as bait to get people to open their doors. It used to be you had to open your door to ICE before they could enter and they had to show a judicial warrant (as opposed to the administrative ones they have), but not any more. An internal memo instructs ICE officers they may break down doors and enter homes without a judicial warrant.

This comes after Stephen Miller announces that ICE officers have absolute immunity for anything they want to do. Jonathan Ross has total immunity for murdering Renée Good.

More and more people are being killed, abducted, kidnapped, rammed, beaten… often for no known offense. Just because a big strong, lily-livered coward with an assault rifle, combat gear and a face mask wants to assert his manhood and beat up a person of color. Or a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, if they get in his way or try to film him.

I'm seething with anger, and I know that all this anger, on the left and on the right, comes from fear. I'm afraid my country is leaving me. The country I went to Vietnam to fight for. The MAGAts are afraid they won't be able to maintain their white supremacy.

As for so-called Christian evangelicals. They are not following Jesus. The only time Jesus got mad was when he saw fraudsters ripping off poor people in the courtyard of the Temple. All the White Christian Nationalists know of the Bible are sound bites from Franklin Graham. Political power in this world comes only from Satan. The Kingdom of God is not of this world. See Matthew 4.8,9 and John 18.36.

But if I'm going to follow Jesus, I have to say, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Jesus has set a place for them at his table. All they have to do is choose to join him.