The Demon-Haunted World (My American Dark Age, Part Three.)

March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one.
~The Chicks, March March (From the upcoming album, Gaslighter.)

I keep seeing this. Pictures and videos of some dumb ass wealthy St. Louis couple that clearly don't know how to use their weapons, pointing them at peaceful protesters who were simply walking by their gaudy mansion on their way to demonstrate in front of the mayor's house.

Let's look at this seriously.

#1 Neither one of these fools is even holding their goddamned weapon properly, fire a rifle like that and you'll likely burn your hand, for one thing. Also, holding a pistol in the same diffident, disgusted manner that one might hold a recently filled dog-poop bag is probably not a good idea if you plan on firing it, and having your finger inside the trigger guard is a straight up violation of basic firearms safety. Also, neither one of these idiots has their eyes on where the muzzle of the weapon is aimed, and at multiple points in the assorted videos I've seen these fucking idiots keep pointing their weapons at each other.

#2 Basic rules as I was taught them, when I was a kid, before I had even the slightest bit of professional training: Always treat every weapon as if it is loaded and do not load it or chamber a round until you have to. Do not ever point a weapon at another person or have your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot. Always know what is downrange in the direction the weapon is aimed.

#3 These people were armed with weapons they do not know how to use, and were reacting with pants-pissing fear to unarmed peaceful protesters who were on their way somewhere else.

And then these fucking idiots managed to draw the attention of the entire country, by being fucking idiots.

And Matt Gaetz (R-Natty Lite) says "This is all of us?"

No bitch, it ain't, not by a long shot, it ain't. I might also be a middle-aged fat guy, but I'm not afraid of other people, and peaceful protesters don't bother me and hell, I'll gladly accept somebody who has even a totally opposite viewpoint from me if they aren't racist, believe in peace, and don't want to hurt people. Other ideas don't scare me. Also, I well remember that I was taught how to use a rifle, a few times including by actual professionals, and this ain't it. Not by a long shot, it ain't.

And Jesse Kelly calls peaceful protesters who simply want the police to stop killing Black people "rioters" and "zoo animals?" Speaking of other things that would've got me shit-canned from more than one job that I've had in this life...

It's becoming hard to not believe that conservatism is racism, and racism is conservatism. It wasn't always like that, but These Fucking People have kicked everybody else out.

Therefore, if only by default, the fucking racists became the ones who defined the philosophy. I don't like this, but it is what it is. I hung on for as long as I could trying for some other result, for all the good it did.

What the hell kind of small-ass demon-haunted world do you have to live in to be this scared of unarmed people who would have just kept walking if you hadn't come out and made an ass of yourself? And just how in the actual fuck do Matt Gaetz (R-Wild Irish Rose) and Jesse Kelly (of "Scalp the liberals before they kill me" wank-fest infamy) each manage to pack so goddamned many racist stereotypes into one fucking Tweet? I mean, I'm old enough to remember when talking like that would get my ass beat and my hide tanned and stretched out on the side of the shed. Hell, I got told "You say that again and you won't be able to sit down for a week" for far less, and I was raised conservative. But when I was coming up, racist talk was considered wrong and snide remarks might get you beat up, so what the fuck do I know?

But then, as certain friends of mine constantly point out, I look at things with some degree of logic.

So, I guess we live in one where yet another Youtube racist got suspended because he's a Youtube Racist and Stefan has a sad because his "Philosophy discussion" came to a crashing end BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING RACIST. Now Scott Adams AKA Nazi Dilbert Guy who never met a bit of woo woo bullshit he didn't like is claiming that he got fired from not one, but two jobs for being white. And how does that work, exactly, given that...well I'm honestly not sure that Scott Adams has ever had a real job?

Meanwhile actual cops Nazis manage to be even more pathetic. Elijah McClain, a black teenager, was killed for (apparently) no damned good reason by the Aurora Police Department, and these violin-playing kids decided to hold a vigil or something...because Elijah was a violinist or whatever...and the police department sent riot police to break up the protest, also for no goddamned good reason.

Seriously what in the hell kind of a candy ass fearful shit do you have to be, to be afraid of a bunch of kids who are playing their violins in the park? Perhaps the kinds of fearful shits who end up getting fired when they get caught hankering for a race war on live audio?

(And then these same racist sons of bitches wonder why people think police departments need to be reformed, their budgets need to be cut, and something about their training needs to be seriously changed?)

At this point, if you're not seeing that some changes to both conservative politics and policing need to be made and that racism ought to be driven from the public square, with anyone who advocates for it wearing a nice new coat of tar and feathers,  then you're part of the fucking problem.

These people's pointless, pants-shitting fear of goddamned near everything is going to get a lot of people killed, hell, it already has. The same fucking people who until a few months ago were banging on endlessly about the Sanctity Of Life are pretty much ready to kill millions if it means they won't have to look at Black people or wear a mask to protect themselves from a deadly virus and they're willing to throw away their own freedom and bow down before a police state that demands nothing less than cowering conformity and submission so long as they get to keep their privilege and racism.

They fear the demons in their own heads, which are of their own creation, so much that they would plunge our society into chaos, destruction and war. They'd rather have explosions in the distance every night, the scream of different kinds of jet engines overhead and mass reports of combat casualties and war crimes. Anything is better than having to face what they actually are, and change even a little.

And given the chance, knowing that as King said, a riot is the language of the unheard, they are desperate to go right on unhearing and go back to sleep, and sleep right through it all until the tanks crash through the White House fence and whatever form of government these fucking people installed is told by people with bigger guns that its power has crumbled and they've nothing left to turn over.

These fucking people automatically assume that if other people have basic Constitutional rights and human freedom and rights, including a right to express yourself, or to not get shot, that it will somehow automatically mean their own deaths, even though they've said that about every single moment of cultural or social change that has ever happened and that's always what these fucking fools have been afraid of and it never works out that way in real life.

But ya know, when you want to murder people just because they're telling you not to kill them, you just might be the fucking demon, delusions in your own head aside, and you might just have never deserved the power this country gave you in the first goddamned place, because you're a piece of fucking shit. If your belief system is founded on the fact that you must have somebody else to oppress, then fuck you. You don't just deserve not to have power, you deserve to be ripped from your power and privilege and forced to have to see how the rest of the world lives and what people have to go through so that you can have your big house and your money and those guns you don't know how to use. And if that inconveniences you, or makes you uncomfortable, too fucking bad.

If you'd point guns at peaceful people just to keep the scales over your own eyes, if you would kill people to save a dime, or to not have to face that you're that kind of sociopath, then fuck you.

You don't deserve to have power or dictate anything to anybody and you deserve to bear the full burden of the judgment that history will give you.

Lunatic dreams create a nightmare reality for the sane.

Part Two.

Part Four.