A little socio-political commentary on the United States in 2022, freewritten this morning. I am finding that Donald Trump, Johnny Depp and Taylor Swift have a cult leader-like untouchable-ness to them, and it disturbs me, you cannot criticize them online or in public without someone telling you to shut up. So I wrote my feelings in a woman protagonist.
She lay in her bed, tears in her eyes, unwilling to get up for the day. “What’s the use?” gnawed at her brain like a starving animal. Starving…she was missing breakfast. But what was the point of keeping yourself nourished when so many cried out for blood? There was nothing she could do to change their hearts. She had done 3 military campaigns to raise the floor, many efforts to show light and friendship and kindness, and the world still demanded bloodshed. Damn that fat man for instilling the seeds of prejudice into the populace. Now nothing could be done. The only actions that raised attention were violent ones, shootings, bombings, riots and death threats. They got one of her favorite actresses fired through such coercion. Jesus was lost, the public worshiped three humans as gods, ignoring the true God. It made her sick, she wanted to break something. But that would just make her what her enemies said she was, unable to be reasoned with, a fanatically violent threat to her country, a mad dog that needed to be put down to keep everyone safe. And no one would do anything about the two violent cults that demanded death sentences on the leaders and an actress. Their cult leaders would suffer not a single second of jail time, not a single session of therapy or counseling, not even a light slap on the wrist. They had become untouchable gods through social media and they relished every second of it. America would never give them a single reprimand as long as they lived, for they had become greater than the President. They had become the gods of America. And they demanded the sacrifice of their enemies.
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