Thursday, May 7, 2020

Judging, Harshly

HE IS A REAL TOUGH GUY, or seems to think he is, despite his advanced age and seeming inability to stand for long periods of time or walk across the street. Each day when I enter my senior center, he glares at me relentlessly, with obvious contempt, hostility, hatred, and aggressive attitude. This happens daily, despite the fact that I have spent the last four years volunteering in the kitchen, cooking his lunch, washing his dishes, serving his lunch, daily. Never a smile, never a kind word, never a simple thank you. Only the glare and the hateful frown, always, every day. Some gratitude. I assume this is because he is a right wing extremist, a Trump supporter, and an evangelical, fundamentalist Christian, waiting very patiently for his lord to descend from the sky, usher him into heaven, and send everyone who disagrees with his religion or politics to hell. It is observable that right wing extremist Trump supporting evangelical Christians tend to behave like gangsters, holding rallies at which they listen to their thuggish leader, Mr. MAGA, berating good people, accusing the media of fake news when it is merely telling the truth about current events, and railing against people who seek to assist the poor of fight climate change. There is something about being extremely religious and extremely conservative which brings out the punkish, thuggish, gangster in one. As if they alone possess truth, and all others must accept it, or be damned. The man glaring at me at the senior center is one of them, and so very typical of the rest of them; a rel intimidator. Trump, who has rarely attended church, proclaims himself a "good Christian", and that is good enough for America's conservative Christian community, whose real agenda is exclusion of minorities, particularly gays, Muslims, and Mexicans, from mainstream society, and the imposition of a Christian theocracy, coupled with a purely capitalistic, competitive economic system, devoid of all social programs which might assist the vulnerable and the poor. Render unto Caesar and give unto the poor are statements made by Jesus which these right wing Trumpers conveniently ignore, because their true agenda has nothing to do with the message of Jesus, but much more to do with harsh, social Darwinistic survival of the wealthy. The gentleman might as well keep glaring at me, for being a non religious Democrat. He may not end up being the one who goes to heaven, and his beloved candidate, the gangster president he so loves to emulate, might not be the survival in the forthcoming general election, considering the state of economy, which, after all, Trump must be given credit for, since he took credit for Obama's healthy economy. it comforts me to know that I needn't worry about going to hell; by the time I die, it will be filled to capacity with right wing Christian Trump supporters, standing much less than six feet apart.

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