One Lone Candle (American Revelation, Final Judgment: The Last Day.)

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.

Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down, 'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.

Last night, in Georgia, Trump left his rallygoers alone in the long dark night yet again. This is the third time this has happened.

As the old military saying goes, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

There's nobody that Donald Trump and his assorted ass-kissers, dead enders and family members hold in more contempt than their own supporters. And why should they not? These fucking people all know, deep down, what they are. So what does that make anybody who supports them? It's functionally a sick feedback loop of abuse and contempt, and the only thing these people end up hating more than each other is the rest of us.

But it says something, that Trump keeps leaving his own ardent supporters in the cold and the dark. What do you think he means for there to be for the rest of us?

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.

This morning, gunmen stormed Kabul University in the Afghan capital, the campus was successfully evacuated despite several dozen casualties, and last I knew Afghan National Army and the police had killed most of the gunmen and were gradually hunting down the rest, and the attackers had been identified as local ISIL affiliates.

Substitute right-wing militia nuts and any American university, and this is the future conservatives want. Like I said, I think we've hit the space where they know they're not going to win over the whole country, let alone get a majority behind them. If they can't break off some land for themselves and then declare war against the rest of us, we're going to have one motherfucker of a terrorist problem.

And if you think there isn't some MAGA nut who's fantasized about shooting up Berkley or Harvard or some other college or university I'm going to go out on not much of a limb here and say you're wrong. These people thirst for control over education and science and the politicization of both...and if they can't have it, then they want to destroy those things for everybody.

And just as Daesh is so extreme even the Taliban are fighting them, it's likewise telling just how many Republicans have come out swinging against MAGA.

In the end, I think the Republican Party under Trump has swung so far to the Right that they've lost a lot of their core supporters.

And fundamentally, there's a reason these people don't care. Whether it's the President abandoning his fanatical supporters in the cold dark night with inadequate transportation, or two women in Chicago stabbing a shoe store security guard 27 times because he told them to put a mask on, these people can always be counted on to do the worst possible thing. For a long time, I thought it was just shit people being shit people.

But in recent days it's amped up to a level where I think there are bad spirits at work here, evil being drawn to evil like moths to a flame.

If you want to fight back, you have to show up.

We have to stop this shit, before they get worse, because too many of these fucking people don't just wish they could be shooting at the rest of us, they want the government to do it for them. Deprive these people of that power, and some of them will still do it, but it won't be as many.

Vote them out, and then be prepared to fight them off.

Tomorrow.

This is American Revelation.

This is our Judgment Day.

Vote.

Economic Anxiety, Yo.

Takbir!

The dark is generous and it is patient, and it always wins.

But at the heart of its strength lies weakness.

One lone candle is enough to hold it back.

Love is more than a candle; Love can ignite the stars.

~Matthew Stover, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith novelization.