Sinclair Lewis Was Wrong.

I have a mansion, forget the price. I've never been there, they tell me it's nice
I live in hotels, stare at the walls
I have accountants to pay for it all

They say I'm crazy but I have a have a good time. I'm just looking for clues at the scene of the crime
Life's been good to me so far

My Maserati does one-eighty-five
I lost my license, now I don't drive
I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked. ~Joe Walsh (Former "Eagles" singer.)

In the 1930's, Sinclair Lewis famously said that Fascism would come to America wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

I think he was wrong.

If Donald Trump had gotten his way, it would have showed up in a gilded stretch limo with Jesus and JFK Jr. while surrounded by a bevvy of topless Las Vegas showgirls and WWE divas shaking their boobs at all the guys in a spectacle officiated by Don King and Vince McMahon, won a cage match against Barack Obama and the ghost of John McCain, appointed Mike Tyson the Grand Mufti of American Islam, owned itself some liberals and comped everybody $100 at a Trump-owned casino. The actual costs of it would then be paid by everybody else at a later date, with interest.

Instead, somebody dialed 911 when it started stripping off its clothes and running around work flapping its arms and pointing out the glories of its manhood to assorted female coworkers. Now it's naked, biting and scratching and screaming "HE'S THE ONE!" covered in its own piss and shit and demanding that people read its manifesto against the time traveling lizard men even as it's being dragged out into the light by serious men in white coveralls with reporters filming the whole mess.

And, tellingly, conservatives are mad at the reporters.

Seriously, these fucking people live in a moral universe where even Christianity itself is nothing more than a prop for disgraced 1980's televangelists to sell dumb ass patent medicines and survivalist taco meat with a helping of "Let me tell you how I bilked half the Evangelicals in the country, cheated on my overly-mascara'd wife with a homosexual and raped the church secretary and by God, I LEFT JERRY FALWELL HOLDING THE FUCKING BAG, Suckers!" to the children and grandchildren of those who gave their life-savings to this same stupid goddamned fool 30 years ago.

If you think Jim Bakker is the actual problem, you're fucking wrong, you haven't been paying attention and I can't help you. Places like Heritage USA would not have existed without the army of cousin-fuckers and drooling goobers who support this filthy enterprise.

Seriously this motherfucker would be living on social security and talking about how the food here is better than it was in jail while playing cards with all the other old WASP-y shits at some club in the Villages with a slight interruption for some home health care nurse to come check his blood pressure IF it wasn't for the unending soul-fucking gullibility of the American Christian Right and angry old people who do nothing but watch TV all the time.

I'm fucking serious, how in the actual goddamned money-changer whipping FUCK is any of this Okay?

IF these fucking people believe in any one goddamned thing that they say they do.

But it's a big goddamned IF.

Oh, never mind. Well there went that argument.

I'll tell you what. I sure was wrong about one thing.

Five years ago I predicted that before this mess was over, Donald Trump would try to declare himself to be God. I was wrong. It's Trump's followers who are rising up and trying to declare him God.

But the universe doesn't answer to you.

And Donald Trump would never die for your sins. In any case he's just a man with no spiritual power anyway.

He does, however, expect you to die for his sins. And it will only get worse from here. How does "Love Thy Neighbor" factor into all of this? It doesn't, it can't. It will get worse.

Because the next thing they'll be screaming about is that "Jesus is Q."

I'm not kidding. Try me. Give it a week, a month, maybe.

The thing that I will never understand is how so many so-called followers of Christ are utterly, selflessly willing to do just that. To throw away their careers, families, lives and even souls for conspiracy theories and Donald Fucking Trump. I'll never understand it. I can never understand it.

But I was taught not to worship a man. I was taught better than this.

The fuck is your excuse?

I'll wait.

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me. ~Exodus 20:2