Dis Barring, Dissing Barr

ACTING (like an) ATTORNEY GENERAL Wm. "Lower the" Barr gave a speech recently before his own kind, a group of extremely religious people who broadcast their superstition far and wide, hoping that the proverbial shit will hit a wall, and stick; namely, religious broadcasters. Wm. Barr, who stretches law and truth to protect a president with similarly questionable scruples, then turns right around and exalts the virtue of limited government and unfettered religious zeal, and glorifies the holier than thou crusade against all progressive programs, the sort which help people. We are privileged or cursed, to live in an age in which a sufficient plurality of the electorate confronts twenty first century problems with first century solutions to have gained significant political influence, fleetingly, hopefully. Bill Barr, like many if not most Trump supporters, is waiting for the Lord to return, or some other such calamity. Since life as we know it will soon end anyway, why not so behave as to hasten it? Why bother to fight climate change? Why not assist in the implementation of God's will? People like William Barr are frightening, and, like the social critic said, "the fools would be humorous were they not in such deadly earnest". The world never ends when we think it will. It didn't end when the year 999 became the year one thousand, nor in 1843 or when American evangelist William Miller had thousands of gullible Americans standing on hilltops, bags packed, bank accounts liquidated; for good measure, when it didn't happen the first time, he tried again a year later, but with less support. Finally, mercifully, he faded away. Y2K turned out to be a fizzle; all that bottled water, toilet paper, and deep excavations in the back yard gone for naught. Just yesterday our token extreme right wing evangelical religious zealot Trump lover, when told that the Corona virus was beginning to spread, predictably proclaimed that it is written in the Bible that there shall be trials and tribulations shortly before the return of the Lord, and that therefore, said Lordly return must surely be imminent. Of course, they've been saying that for, oh, two thousand years. So, Mr. Barr ranted in front of the religious radio folks about the perils of big government, and the war on God, and condemned rendering unto Caesar and giving unto the poor. Harmless toxin, were he not in an actual position of authority. My local reprobate is less harmful, only because he hasn't the power or authority to help spread the Corona virus widely in self fulfilling prophecy, much as he might want to. The sliver lining is that both of these diseased minds are old, and won't spread their contagion much longer.