If you’re familiar with the popular series Stranger Things, then you know what I mean when I say the vines in the Upside Down grow deep and have been spreading. If you’re not familiar, let me explain what the Upside Down is and about the vines: it is a place that seems very similar to our world but is sinister and peopled with evil creatures. The Upside Down has a mind hive and one aspect of its evilness is the vines that grow and spread everywhere. Hawkins is the town under attack from the Upside Down.
In real life, 45, his cult, his supporters, “Christian” nationalists, white supremacist militias, right wing conservative evangelicals and other extremists make up the Upside Down. Their corruption is everywhere and easily influenced people fall under their power. The rest of us are Hawkins, under siege but fighting back.
Another way to look at it is this: is tRump THE anti-Christ? If he wasn’t so flat out stupid, I might think so as many real Christians have wondered. But Jesus said that we would suffer through many “false prophets” – many anti-Christs – before THE real thing shows up. I might be more likely to think Death Santis could be THE one but even he is probably just another of the false prophets. Could it be Putin? Possibly. Jesus also said, by their deeds you shall know them. It’s very clear now that TFG and all his followers are evil. Just look at what they say and do. Who the anti-Christ could be has been on my mind since reading an article in Daily Kos: Is Donald Trump The Anti-Christ?
Most recently regarding TFG, the DOJ has released a redacted affidavit the judge used to sign for the search of Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. With each release about news regarding all the files tRump stole and hoarded, things just seem more horrifying. As President, that man never read anything. He wasn’t interested no matter how much his staff abridged or tried to spice it up. So why did he take those files, many of which were of the highest security? One: to use as blackmail. Two: to sell to foreign agents. Whatever the reason, they weren’t even secured. Anyone could have accessed those files. Daily Kos ran an article not long ago wondering who actually packed the files and why? Who else are involved? What other “vines”?
Still thinking of those other “vines”, how about the GQP response to all these new evil revelations? Their response that it sure looks like 45 was a treasonous foreign agent? First Rand Paul of Kentucky suggested that the FBI planted the files and then called for repealing/doing away with the Espionage Act!
I read in another newsletter piece that TFG isn’t the source of the rot; he’s a symptom. He didn’t create the racism, white supremacy, and right-wing extremist groups. He just brought them into the open by embracing them. There has always been a sickness in this country; we just weren’t so aware of it until tRump ascended. Just look now at the governors of Florida and Texas and the fascist laws they are bringing to their states. Look at the conservative right wing of the Supreme Court—all tRump appointees. The white supremacist extremists and so-called “Christian” nationalists are openly plotting an overthrow of our government and creating a theocracy which is NOT based on the New Testament. These groups and what is now the GQP/Rethuglicans have embraced violence as an acceptable way to get their way.
The vines have spread to the police and ordinary citizens. No matter how many times there has been outrage about police violence against a person of color they have in custody, it just goes on and on. Civility is out the window. I just read NBC’s article about covid bullies . There’s always been bullies and trolls online and off who take perverse pleasure in hurting people. They didn’t seem as prevalent before.
The tentacles have spread far and wide.
On the up side, there are enough of the Hawkins residents (us) to keep fighting off the Upside Down’s vines. We just can’t give up because the Upside Down is a truly terrifying place in which to be trapped.
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