You know, I was thinking last night as I drifted off to sleep [View all]

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that all the movies and fun stories about mobsters are great for entertainment purposes, but when you see a real low life mobster in action, who is in a position to destroy the very fabric of the country in which we live, it’s not entertaining. It is frightening. The ruthlessness with which they ordered this nightmare to occur, the support given by senators and others of import and power to this sociopath and his family is overwhelmingly frightening and despicable. Films like the Godfather were designed to both romanticize and explain the existence of this crowd and films such as Goodfellas attempted to show the crass and violent side of their work lives, But I’ll tell you that for me the most frightening aspect of this was the way the crowd via their leader was looking to assassinate none other than Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States of America.

I hold no briefs for this toady, whose unctuous religiosity nauseates me, but the fact that this group of amateur storm troopers could convict him in their minds of a capital crime and look to lynch him is beyond the pale. One can only imagine what would’ve happened had they caught up with any of the representatives or senators from the left, particularly the females. This of course is a microcosm of America and representative of a tremendous number of people with whom we rarely if ever come into contact on a daily basis, but who most definitely exist in the background of our lives.

So many people have said to me during the last few days that they have been unable to watch this since it occurred because it’s so horrifying, and it gives credibility to the great movie line that they “can’t handle the truth”. I understand this, it’s like watching a battlefield in real time and forever being scarred by the images. I have to tell you that as a sentient individual I watched the Kennedy assassination‘s aftermath, the resultant societal tumult following the deaths of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, The horrors of Vietnam and other wars, as depicted in newsreel footage and seeing the wounded and despondent come home, the nightmare that was 9/11, and countless other minor incidents which affected my emotions greatly, But I will tell you that I have never had my soul shaken as I have been watching all of this. It is, to borrow a phrase, the sum of all fears. These are the people among whom we live, work, and play. They are capable of any behavior when they congregate in masses. Make no mistake, it is not over, it will never be over, and we will have to find a way to manage this group that has been given voice by this tinhorn Mussolini who ruled this country for four years.