Misbehaving For Jesus

 AT MY LOCAL SENIOR CENTER many if not most of the elderly evangelical Christians are devout Trumpists who voted for Jesus and who consider Trump and Him two peas in a pod, in that they are beloved by god's chosen and rejected by sinners, to wit, liberal Democrats. Their younger, more energetic first cousins are the sort who carry assault weapons and bibles into the streets and, wearing white hoods, MAGA caps, knife and bludgeon bystanders suspected of voting for Biden in honor of their mistreated savior, Donald J. Trump. These people are dangerous, old and young alike, for their ideology is malignnant. I try to avoid wondering how many seniors, locally and nationally, all people who should know how to behave by now, joined Trump's doomed, desperate, desperate, demented, delusional attempt to steal the election from Joe Biden. One is too many.In all fifty state capitols Trumpist thugs harassed electors  as they completed their constitutional duties in electing Joe Biden.They are dangerous, thuggish demagogues, who worship a monstrous president and a monstrous deity and threaten anyone who does not with eternal damnation in hell. Hell, to our great fortune, is as imaginary as the virtue, self proclaimed goodness, superiority, and good citizenship of the evangelical community which supported Donald Trump. The evangelicals at the senior center are willing participants in a extremist, ultra right wing, ultra religious, thoroughly radicalized mob of thuggish and gangsters, and they number, alarmingly, about a third of the American population..They adore Trump and Jesus, reject democracy, advocate theocracy, carry guns, and they think secular progressives are the enemy.They believe that their God will descend from the sky in a flaming chariot any day now, and that Covid 19 is a liberal hoax, a sign of the end of days, or both. While they spread the disease by ignoring public safety protocols the pray for either the pandemic to end, or for the human race to end.They would be fine with either outcome. They would be less dangerous were they not so numerous, angry, well armed with fire arms, and totally  deluded.We must resist them and either reform them or defeat them before they succeed in forcing the rest of us, those who remain sane, to join them in their fantasy world by force.