I Love You, November

A lot of people have been describing this phenomenon. You remember…and suddenly…you smile and breathe a sigh of relief. Barack’s in the kitchen and he’s cookin up a big ol batch of awesome. January 20th is so far away. Oh well.

The Saturday before the election I went to a customer’s house to deliver a computer. I walked in and Fox News was on the TV. Heavens.  I do my job and I do it pleasantly. I have become a master of repressing myself. This is for two reasons, I suppose. To protect myself, primarily, and to protect those around me. The unfortunate downside of this is that people don’t see what is really there…ever. I’m in this person’s home, doing a job that I was asked to do, and then I have to listen to scripture being quoted, ignorance being spouted, hate hate hate, and a side of fear. Words like anti-christ, dictator, and communism popped up.

I have seen what this kind of thinking did to a man who plotted and put into motion a plan that was inconceivably evil and traumatized an entire community. I don’t see anyone calling him the anti-christ.

I wish I hadn’t deleted it, but I got an email the morning of the 5th from a friend of the family. Saying she truly believed Obama is evil incarnate and prayed to God in Jesus name that we be delivered from him.

WHAT…?

I have to admit I am not really one to appreciate allegory. A lot of metaphor and "between the lines" kinds of things are lost on me. That said…I don’t understand how anyone could look at the current incarnation of the Holy (Christian) Bible and not see that there is a lot of that kind of thing going on. (Seriously? A 7 headed, 10 horned beast is going to come tromping down the street…with a whore on its back…?)

It unsettles me how ignorant people are…and by unsettled I mean depresses the everloving shit out of me. It is ok though. It’s all going to be alright.