Whither the USA?

Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in the 1982 film Bladerunner

Writing the day after a young man attempted to shoot Donald Trump in the head, one question comes to mind.

Whither the USA?

Do decent Americans appreciate the gravity of the current political situation?

The rabble have a “blood martyr” now.

The sheer power of Christian nationalist ideology to make people blind to any other reality is impossible to overstate.

I escaped my own hyper-evangelical family over 40 years ago, yet even today sometimes find myself reading the news through a lens borrowed from The Book of Revelation – a text written by an unknown man on a Mediterranean island sixty some odd years after the death of Jesus.  If a secular-minded student of history can find it hard to escape his childhood indoctrination with the pseudo-mystic prophecies and ravings of a Jewish convert to Christ worship from 2,000 years ago – with its visions of serpents, and beasts, and seven-headed dragons – then what can we expect from people who buy this stuff wholesale?

I had my own vision a few years back of creating a website and podcast for people interested in a truthful telling of American history.

To borrow a quote from one of my favorite films, I fear that anything written or spoken by good and honest people today will end up lost, “like tears in rain“.

Not looking to be an overtly political writer.  But what part of existence is not “political”?  Just looking for some hope here.

What are all the good people doing in preparation for what this November is likely to bring?