The New Hell...

Folk #1: You know. It feels like a test. I always hated tests. Of course, the test don't care. I just don't think I'm wired for all this New American Nazi/Fascist/Authoritarian shite. It does not sit well with me. I don't know how to digest it. I mean, I can go as dark as you want. I have read lots of novels of dystopia. Still, I feel like a little yellow canary in a deep dark coal-mine. Any little fume and I'm lit. You know I'm the alarm, the warning bell, that tolls when things start getting deadly and ugly. Ugliness and cruelty are the themes of the day. All of this new anti-woke, anti-humane b.s. is so contrary to my vision of the USA. Of course, we have always been a divided country, and there has always been injustice, and inequality, hate & racism. But the level of ignorance, corruption & lies has multiplied beyond comprehension & swamped over us all. Seems we are a broken nation, collapsing, teetering, devolving into a pure, cruel, senseless, idiotic, chaos. Who to blame? All of us. We have all failed. No doubt. We have royally fucked ourselves over. Of course, I never voted for this shite. Most of the folks I know didn't either. We are the opposition, the resistance, the folks who say: "We are against it." It's, of course, not enough. The atrocities roll out every damn day. And the lies, the outrageous, confounding river of lies just flows, and flows, and flows. It is a certain vision of Hell. No doubt.