Published October 25, 2024

With apologies to the Eagles:

And I found out a long time ago
What a monster can do to your soul
Aw but he can’t take you any way
You don’t already know how to go”

He’s just bringing it out of people. It was already in them.

If I am wrong, explain it to me. Give me an explanation that doesn’t shift the responsibility to someone else. People don’t embrace this kind of hate, chaos and destruction unless they want to. They are not accidental tourists down that path. They want to be led by someone like that, with false bravado, a phony in every way.

I don’t know why.

Throw fascism into that list. Authoritarianism. Cruelty.

People tell me to reread Fromm. To read “Caste.” I would except I can see it all unfolding live.

Hoping for the best for us all, but so afraid.

Photo of a dirt path on a sunny autumn day by kavran via Shutterstock.