Most absurdly Trump thought he deserved the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. But he didn’t. Maria Corina Machado did for fighting a dictatorship in her country, whereas Trump is fighting to become America’s first dictator. Machado fights for her people. Trump fights against the American people he is supposed to represent. What he represents is a white supremacy NAZI cult. As Commander in Chief of War, he has declared war on Americans. He treats Hispanics the way Netanyahu treats Palestinians. He makes them disappear. And like the Palestinians whose land was invaded by the Israelites, Hispanics were in America before the Americans invaded and stole their land: “The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. Mexico also relinquished all claims to Texas, and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States” (The U.S. National Archives, now closed due to the shutdown of the federal government).
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025
Satanic Hamas Laughs at Israel's Hypocrisy
Says the Hamas Boss Man, “You think we are Satan's spawn, but we are not. We are your children. You accuse us of doing terrible things, but we learned to do them from you and your book which became our book and from your God which became our God. And this is what we learned from your book and from your God"
From the Book of
Deuteronomy: “In the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving
you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But
you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and
the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded
you, so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable
things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the
LORD your God.”
Such hypocrisy!
From First Samuel: “Now
go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare
them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and
donkey.”
Such hypocrisy!
From the Book of
Numbers: “Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”
Such hypocrisy!
From the Book of Joshua:
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young
and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.” Such hatred
that hates everything.
Such hypocrisy!
From the Book of Exodus:
So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout
Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn
son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female
slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.
There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or
ever will be again.”
Such hypocrisy!
You complain about our
slaughter of infants, children, mothers, and fathers, but we learned slaughter
from you. You will not find mass murder or genocide in the Quran. The Quran
does not condone the slaughter of infants, children, mothers, and fathers. The
Quran says only “Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not
transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.”
Such hypocrisy!
You condemn us for
hiding among Palestinian civilians. But you bomb them to kill us. You call us
evil because we kill Jewish babies so that the Palestinians can have a home of
their own but you kill Palestinian babies to kill us. We are all guilty of
infanticide but we do not pretend to be innocent.
Such hypocrisy
But in fighting you we
do as your book says and by doing so transgress the limits set upon us by the
Quran. Yet, there are not limits for you. Even now as you destroy cities as
your God destroyed cities with fire and brimstone. And you do the same.
Such hypocrisy!
From the Book of Genesis
your God says this: “Seven days from now I will send rain on the
earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of
the earth every living creature I have made.” Allah never did such
thing. I wonder if we worship same God.
Such hypocrisy!
And you are the
invaders, not us. Your ancestors came as Hyksos nomads and invaded disunited
Egypt, set fire to the cities, razed the temples, squandered the accumulated
wealth, who destroyed much of the accumulated art, and for two hundred years
subjected the Nile valley. Finally, the rowdy Hyksos are driven out of Egypt.
Says Manetho, an Egyptian historian of the third century B.C., “the Exodus was
due to the desire of the Egyptians to protect themselves from a plague that had
broken out among the destitute and enslaved Jews, and that Moses was an
Egyptian priest who went as a missionary among the Jewish lepers.”
So driven out of Egypt
the Israelites invaded Canaan and slaughtered the Canaanites, the ancestors of
the Palestinians. Then foolishly your people started a war with Rome thinking
your God would save you, but he did not. As with Jesus, he never does. You were
scattered like dust in the wind. Then in 1948 you once against invaded our land
the land that was ours before you first invaded it. And you invaded it because
Hitler killed six million of your people. The Palestinian did not harm you, but
you harmed them. It was Christians who killed you, not Palestinians. They
treated you as your people treated the Canaanites and later Jewish Christians.
You invaded Palestine with the help of Christian nations who felt guilty for
how they treated you. So Palestine was invaded and Palestinian homes and towns
were destroyed just as the homes and towns of ancient the Canaanites were
destroyed. And the Palestinians were removed from their communities and homes
and placed in reservations just as Old Testament Christian Americans placed the Native Americans, the first Americans, in reservations. You treated the Palestinians as the Nazis treated you.
Such hypocrisy!
You hated us from the very beginning. When driven out of Egypt the first Canaanites you encountered were the Amalekites who attacked because you were invaders and you believed your God gave you permission to possess their land as an inheritance and commanded you to blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. And your God sought their extermination: "The Lord said to Moses, 'Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.'” And now the Amalekites no longer exist.
Such hypocrisy!
And when Shechem the
Hivite fell in love with Dinah and took her your ancestors took revenge because
she was disgrace, not for being raped but for having sex with a Canaanite
pagan. The Hivites were willing to make amends by being circumcised to become Jews.
But your people killed every male and took their flocks, the cattle, the
donkeys, and everything else in the city and in the fields because they hated
pagans. They took everything of value, captured all the Hivite women and
children, and carried off everything in the houses. You never respond with
moderation because your hatred will not allow it. For you love never conquers
hate. And from you we learned to hate. It was an outrage that a pagan would
fall in love with an Israelite but not for the Israelites to take the pagan
women to be slaves like Hagar the Egyptian slave of Abraham. Your celebrated
King David had concubines, some he left to die, and his son Solomon had three
hundred concubines. And David committed adultery with Bathsheba and arranged the
death of her husband, his most loyal soldier Uriah the Hittite. Yet a tribe is
destroyed because Shechem fell in love with a Jew.
Such hypocrisy!
In
his play The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare tells how much you
hate everybody, the hated goyim. Shylock the Jew is constantly saying about the
goyim “I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you” because he
hates the goyim. The essence of such men is hatred, men who associate only with
other haters like themselves united by an ideology of hatred.
Shakespeare
is called an anti-Semite but he wasn’t. Unlike Moses and Ezra he celebrates the
love between the Jew and the gentile. He has the Jewess Jessica fall in love
with the Loenzo who loves her even though she is a Jew. And what was her
father’s response? He says, “My own flesh and blood rebel” because it was a sin
for Jews to marry non-Jews. He is like the prophet Ezra who tells the Jews who
have married pagans, “Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from
your foreign wives.” Yet, Shakespeare’s play celebrates the love between the
Jews and gentile. And in Romeo and Juliet love overcomes the
hatred of feuding families. For the gentile Shakespeare, unlike for you, love
is able to conquer hate. The hater's daughter Jessica says love is blind
because love comes from the heart not from an ideology of hate. And like Moses,
Shylock says “I wish my daughter were dead at my feet.” Moses told his soldiers
to “Now kill all the boys. And kill every Midianite woman who has slept with an
Israelite man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a
man.” You hated our ancestors as you hate us. Your ancestors took our girls as
slaves and concubines; otherwise, they were meaningless to you. And you
complain about being the victims of racism.
Such
hypocrisy!
You believe
anti-Semitism emerged ex nihilo from the minds of the goyim, but like
everything it had a cause or causes in your case. The great Israeli historian
Victor Tcherikover examines the causes of anti-Semitism in his masterful
book Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews. And the causes are
ancient, long before Shakespeare’s time. Tcherikover examines ancient thinkers
who addressed the causes of anti-Semitism. But first let what he says about the
Greeks serve as a preface: “What impelled the Greeks to oppose the Jews?
National hatred in the modern sense did not exist in the ancient world, and
much less religious hatred. The Greeks were familiar with many foreigners from
abroad who had settled in their cities, but had found no need to carry on a
violent attack against them. Why did they hate the Jews of all people?” (372).
And from F.E. Peters about the Jews living in pagan Hellenistic Egypt:
"The number of Jews in Egypt may have reached one million by Roman times,
but whether the figure is accurate or not, the Jewish population of Egypt was
considerable. Most of them lived in Alexandria [named after Alexander the
Great, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon] and grew cultured and
prosperous" (The Harvest of Hellenism 296-297).
Here are the opinions of
the ancients according to Tcherikover. The first is the Greek historian
Hecataeus of Abdera (360 BC – 290 BC). He “remarks that Moses initiated a form
of life encouraging seclusion from humankind and hatred of aliens,” including
“the Jewish refusal to eat at Gentile tables, and this may have impressed him
as incomprehensible pride and hatred of aliens” (360-361).
Then comes Manetho, (flourished c. 300 BC), an Egyptian priest who wrote a history of Egypt in Greek. The Jewish priest and historian Flavius Josephus (c 37-100 AD) preserved “two extracts of very great importance for the present question” (361). First is about the Hyksos nation which “attacked Egypt and ruled it for over five hundred years. Forced out of Egypt, they turned toward Syria, and on their way there found the city of Jerusalem in the land of Judaea” (361). On their way included the brutal conquest of Canaan! The Jews were always invaders and aggressors. In the second extract Manetho says Osarseph, aka Moses, “forbade them [Jewish lepers] to associate with people not of their persuasion. He fortified Avaris [the Hyksos capital of Egypt] with walls and sent an invitation to the descendants of the Hyksos who lived in Jerusalem to come to his aid in the conquest of Egypt.
They obeyed him willingly and came to Egypt to the number of 200,000.... This rule [of the lepers/Jews] was of unparalleled cruelty; the lepers burned down towns and villages, plundered temples, defiled the images of the gods, converted shrines into shambles.” Ultimately, the king of ancient Egypt Amenophis drove the invaders out of Egypt (362). So the Jews did not have to escape Egypt. They were invaders driven from Egypt. Says Tcherikover, “His [Manetho] account of the Hyksos and the lepers explains to the reader the Jews’ origin. Amenophis expels the Jerusalemites and the lepers from Egypt and pursues them to ‘to the frontiers of Syria,’ and it is clear that the Hyksos returned whence they had come, to Jerusalem, and the lepers went with them” (362-363).
Josephus says Osarseph
“changed his name and called himself Moses” (362). “Manetho wanted to show his
readers that the Jews’ ancestors, the lepers, had already publicly manifested the negative characteristics later inherited by the
descendants: cruelty, hatred of customs of other religions, the striving to
seclude themselves from others and to find associates only among themselves”
(363). Is this anti-Semitism? Of course it is. It means hatred of the people
who hate you and who brought conquest, death, and destruction upon your people. It
is, in other words, hatred caused by cruel, villainous deeds such as those
occurring in Gaza.
“The Jews told stories
of Joseph as a wise governor of Egypt, whereas Manetho replied that he had
ruined the country, polluted the shrines and persecuted religion.... The Jews
claimed that God had brought them out of Egypt, while Manetho asserted they had
been expelled the from the country after they had ruled it brutally for thirteen
years. Thus was created the first anti-Semitic book” (363-364). The question
that arises is how does one write a positive book about a people who ruined
one’s country? Is hatred of Nazi Germany justified? Of course it is. Is slaves' hatred toward the white Christians who enslaved them justified? Of course it is. Is the
hatred of Native Americans toward the white Christians who destroy them and
stole their homelands justified? Of course it is. Hatred is evil only when it
has no cause. And should one love people who hate you? Hate breeds hate. It’s
that simple.
In reference to Jewish
misanthropy Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian,
mathematician, Posidonius (c 135 – 51 BC) relates the story that “when
Antiochus Sidetes attacked Jerusalem, his courtiers advised him to exterminate
the Jews completely, arguing that they alone of all the peoples refuse to come
into contact with other peoples and regarded all of them as enemies” (368).
Even if the story is only a legend it reflects how the thinking and behavior of
ancient Jews were perceived by pagans, whom the Jews robbed, slaughter,
and hated, which they celebrate in the Old Testament. Anti-Semitism is a coin
with two sides. On one side is the hatred of the Jews. On the other side is the
Jews hatred of all the non-Jewish peoples of the world. Tcherikover continues
saying that the Greek rhetorician Apollonius Molon (c. 70
BC) "wrote of the Jews: 'They do not accept among themselves people who
entertain different outlooks on Gd, nor do they wish to come into contact with
those whose customs differ from their own'" (368). You complain that you
are hated by others but you created their hatred.
Such hypocrisy
So there you have it, the
roots of anti-Semitism are found in the thinking and behavior of the Jews. It
didn’t appear ex-nihilo. It had a cause. It's time for you to look in the
mirror that is your history.
Such hypocrisy
And you hated Christians
as much as you hated pagans, having their prophet Jesus, the only wise man among you who did not hate us and who preached love
crucified as a criminal. And Saul was your assassin who persecuted Jewish
Christians. Then Saul became Paul who transformed Jesus' Christianity into a
religion of hatred. His was a weaponized Christianity that practiced by anti-pagan Christians, not the
religion of Jesus. And once he converted to Christianity he and fellow
revolutionary Silas travel inland along the Via Egnatia to Philippi to subvert
the pagans of the Roman Empire so they would destroy themselves. Their success
is described in the book of Acts: “And so were the churches established in the
faith, and increased in number daily” (16:5). Their god of hatred had called
them to preach the gospel of self-hatred and loathing to the pagans. The pagans
caught Paul and Silas and took them to the marketplace to the rulers. They
complained that “These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and
teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe,
being Romans” (16:20-21). As it would
turn out, Paul caused more than just a little trouble. His ideology of hatred taught
the pagans of Rome Empire to hate one another because he hated them. The
destruction Paul caused is described by Catherine Nixey in her book The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction
of the Classical world. And yet we are the only evildoers.
Such hypocrisy!
And you pat the backs
and smile at American Christians with pocket bulging with $$$ when they come to
Jerusalem their portal to postmortem paradise because you receive billions of
$$$ each year in military goods from the U.S. But behind their backs you laugh
at them because they like the pagans you hated theirs is a polytheistic
religion (2≠1) and like the pagans they believe Yahweh impregnated a human girl
(thirteen or fourteen years of age) as Zeus impregnated Alcmene who gave birth
to Hercules. At the time, Mary was engaged to Joseph who sought to dismiss Mary
quietly but Yahweh sent an angel to convince him to take Mary as his wife. Mary
gave birth to a man who was also a God (human ≠ God) who died on the cross
crying out “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
We too laugh but do not
pretend to be America’s friend. But how can you be and mock the God of the
American Christians who are the greatest supporters of Israel by making a movie with one of yours pissing on a
portrait of Jesus?
Such hypocrisy!
(https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union).
And like Paul destroyer
of the Roman Empire, you tried to do the same to Germany with your Marxist
ideology after World War I, but you only created another monster who sent you to
death camps. You’ve been very good at creating monsters that turn on you and
everyone else. And now you are the monster who turns hospitals into morgues and
buries children under the rubble of your destruction.
Such hypocrisy!
Most important to you
has always been to have a homeland of your own. That is what you sought once
driven out of Egypt, a homeland of your own, which you took by violence. Yet,
you do not understand the need of the Palestinians for a homeland of their own
where they can be safe from you.
Such hypocrisy!
We laugh at your
self-righteousness.
A final question: Was our action—the killing of Jewish children—morally justified? No. The killing of civilians, especially children, is never morally justified. We recognize that. We acted out of revenge, brutal immoral revenge, just as Netanyahu has done. Both sides have once again been dragged back to the Stone Age when there was no morality but only violence. We are both guilty of violating God's commandments not to kill and to love our neighbors, not kill them. We have both become immoral monsters. And only the Jewish people—not Netanyahu—can solve the problem that has transformed both sides into immoral children murdering barbarians. Then we can cease being monsters and return to being human beings again.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Warning to Europe and America!
!!WARNING TO EUROPE!!
lose the Next war
with Russia
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Putin’s Vengeance on Ukrainians
The
Ghost of Stalin said to Putin in a dream, “Take vengeance on the Ukrainians for
rejecting Russian servitude. After that, you will gather your people in a great
victory celebration and your name shall be celebrated forever in Russia.”
So
Putin said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Ukrainians
so that they may carry out the my vengeance on them. Send into battle thousands of men from the towns and villages of Russia.” So a million men armed for
battle, most taken from the poorest regions of Russia, and were given
tanks and AK-47s sprinkled with holy water to make their users invincible. Putin
sent a million men into battle, and while thousands upon thousands died, he remained safe in the
sanctuary of his palace.
The Russians caused great slaughter among the Ukrainians, killing men and women and kidnapping children to be put for sale on the Internet to Russian pedophiles. According to Putin’s command his generals killed every man except those captured for tortured. Among their victims were lovers walking together holding hands and discussing their future, children and mother in playgrounds, shoppers, worshipers in churches, patients and doctors in hospitals, students in schools, the young and elderly, men, women, children. They even killed animals.
Captured were the Ukrainian women and children to be sold. Also taken as plunder was anything that could be carried such as watches, jewelry, and other nice things lacking in Russia, but also gold teeth to be made into necklaces for Russian men and women. They burned all the towns where the Ukrainians lived. There was nothing left but death and destruction and untold Ukrainians buried in the rubble. They took all the plunder and spoils, and killed as many people and animals they could.
Putin was pleased
with the destruction he had unleashed upon Ukraine, yet his vengeance was not
yet satisfied because the Ghost of Stalin told him that the destruction of
Ukraine was just the beginning. The USSR must be restored, and once that is accomplished
you shall be canonized as Saint Vladimir!
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Remembering When America Was Great
Yesterday, the small town of La Mure, France, celebrated America's role in bringing an end to World War II. Liberation came to La Mure on August 22, 1944. There was a parade with men dressed as American G.I.s There were jeeps and other icons of that horrific war.
The French remember American soldiers as brave liberators:
Those soldiers were unlike the soldiers in today’s America serving America’s first dictator as oppressors of their own people. In 1944 America was the greatest nation in the world not because it was big, rich, and powerful but because of its willingness to sacrifice blood and treasure to help save the world from bloodthirsty expansionist dictators such as Hitler.
Like the French I recall that time when America was truly great, when the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt understood that greatness doesn’t come with amassing wealth and power but with the willingness to sacrifice to save others who cannot save themselves—as Jesus demands in his parable of the Good Samaritan, and as he sacrificed himself to save others.
That is how America is remembered and celebrated by the French, as a nation of heroes. But that is not the America of today. The America of today has the masked thugs of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) terrorizing Hispanic and Asian families—men, women, and children—arresting them and sending them to concentration camps or simply making them disappear in some authoritarian nation on Donald Trump's payroll. The age of heroes is over in America.
Of life, liberty, and happiness
Who bravely fought enemy soldiers
Now an ally of a cruel aggressor.
Of unarmed civilians
Men, Women, and Children
Once loved and respected
Now objects of fear and loathing.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Me too!!!!
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Uncle Ed’s Goodbye America Trip
“Hey, Grandpa, Uncle Ed’s here. Turn off the news and come and see.” Grandpa heads upstairs and finds Ed sitting on the porch with a glass of lemonade. He’s wearing a MAGA hat.
“Ed, what are you doing here?”
“Drinking lemonade. Downright tasty, reminds me of the golden olden days.”
“So why the visit, Ed, though you’re always welcome?” Grandpa sees Ed’s old camper parked the curb.
“You drove all that way in your old camper. Can’t believe it.”
“Might be my last. Drove Highway 66 or what’s left of it. Lots of blue roads. Parts of I-40 for old times sake, like the time you and I made the trip in my old VW bug of mine, which broke down in the middle of nowhere. But she got us to a town too small to have a name. You remember. We were visiting your mom for Christmas. Man was it cold.”
“Those dudes robbed us. Said they had to remove the engine to fix the problem, an alternator!”
“Out in the middle of nowhere beggars can’t be choosy. They certainly weren’t getting rich.”
“So why are you here?”
“My farewell trip. Wanted to see what’s left of America, at least the America I knew.”
“Can’t believe you’d do that.”
“Had to get away.”
“You had to get away from California. I thought you liked Comanche Junction.”
“Thought I would too. I moved there mainly because an old aunt lived there. I’d never been there before. She was the last of my tribe. And the name of the town was appealing. But she died a few months after I got there and the town really had nothing to do with the Indians. You’d never know it was once the hunting grounds of the Comanche and Kiowa.”
“Why didn’t you move?”
“Bought a house and too old to move again. Just said fuck it. But now I’m thinking maybe I’ll have to move again.”
“That’s too bad.”
“Yeah. Don’t know what I was looking for, but I knew I had to get out of Orange County.”
“Because of the break-in?”
“Fucking Mexican gang-bangers. Those Mexican gangs created a shit pile of bad karma for their own people. They break into our country, or their parents did, and that’s how they show their gratitude. Those gang-bangers created the MAGA nightmare that got Trump reelected and them deported. They really betrayed their parents who took the risk to enter the country illegally to work, not to join gangs. I get that Americans hated the government even more after Biden, so they elected a politician who hated the government as much as they did. And MAGA government turned out to be worse than all the others and no friend of the Trump supporters. The Big Beautiful Bill for billionaires proves that much. It’s supposed to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, not a government run by billionaires for billionaires. And all those spineless politicians voted for it just like they did for the Vietnam War.”
“Except for Senators Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening. They voted against the war.”
“Those two heroes were like the sheriff in High Noon, all alone among cowards. The rest were collaborators who now live in infamy.”
“And because of Trump, Biden became a saint. How ironic is that? He did as much as the Hispanics to get Trump reelected. And MAGA is just a Charlie Manson cult full of hate that took over the country. But I would have left Orange County anyway. A totally unnatural place. Nature paved over with civilization. Had to go to a park to see a patch of grass or drive through a ton of traffic to get to the ocean for a breath of fresh air. But the break-in told me I needed to get out of town for my safety. I mean my apartment complex looked like a jail with barred windows on all the first floor apartments except mine. That should have been red flag, but it was all I could afford if I wanted to own a place in my old age. They caught some bangers breaking into other homes and wanted me to check them out in a lineup to see if any were the same guys who robbed me. They told me they were members of a local Mexican gang.”
“Did you go?”
“Hell no! One of the guys who robbed me held a knife to my throat while his buddies ransacked my apartment. I was in bed scared stiff. So even if they were the same guys, no way I was going to testify against them. If they went to prison the rest of the gang would be looking for revenge. So I put the apartment up for sale. Sold it for peanuts and headed to Comanche Junction. But the bad karma caught up with the bangers and their parents who probably never broke a law except for coming into the country illegally but were grateful that they would be able to build a new life America. And I don’t blame them. The government never cared about defending the borders. Like Putin, Trump doesn’t believe in borders. Says he does but only ours because it got him elected but nobody’s else’s borders, like Canada’s and Greenland’s.
“And the other monster created by Hispanic bad karma was fucking run-amok ICE. What a bunch of thugs. Mussolini had his Blackshirts and Hitler had his Brownshirts. Now Trump has ICE. They don’t bother with lineups or trials. If you’re brown you’re guilty. If you got a tattoo you’ll disappear in a prison that keeps convicts in cages criticized as too cruel for animals by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
“I don’t blame the immigrants for coming here to work and raise a family. Mexicans aren’t like Americans. They’re not afraid of hard work. But their kids are something else, scary gangbangers like that MS-13 gang who look like a bunch of zombies from Doctor Moreau’s island. Beast people! And that’s what got Terminator Trump reelected, and understandably so. People don’t want to live on Doctor Moreau’s island. But now they have to worry about ICE and the rest of us have to worry about MAGA. Never thought I’d see the day.”
“LBJ and his Vietnam War seem like the good old days. Then America just evaporated.”
“Smoking dope, making love, and reading Camus and Kerouac, America’s last hurrah. Remember when we saw Peter, Paul, and Mary with your brother and that Jewish girl he was in love with?”
“Yeah, I remember. I suppose he’s better off in a way.”
“Nah, John wouldn’t think that. None of the shit would bother him. He was Mr. Mellow.”
“Zig-Zag man. True enough. Nothing bothered him so much that he couldn’t enjoy life. I think after his stint in Vietnam he decided humanity was a lost cause so all you can do is enjoy life as best as you can. He followed Candide’s advice that we got to cultivate our garden because the rest of the world is so fucked up it can’t be fixed. And if it was fixed, some narcissistic politician would break it again. That’s why he got a house on cul-de-sac at the very edge of the city. His back yard was the desert. Now his ashes are blowin in the wind over that desert. Just as he wanted.”
“I miss him.”
“Yeah. So you blew off Orange County.”
“Never like the place anyway. There was no edge to the city, just more city. I felt trapped like claustrophobic.”
“But Comanche Junction hasn’t worked out either?”
“Did at first, but then the Trumpers wearing those darn MAGA hats appeared like the ghouls in that movie Night of the Living Dead. I think we saw that together. Fucking creepy. Wasn’t long until everyone had to wear a MAGA hat.” He pointed to his. “Make America Great Again. What a load of shit. Rumors were that some Biden’s people with their own hats got lynched. Hell, I was more afraid of the Trump cult than I was of the Mexican gangs in Orange County. The gangs were driven by the profit motive, whereas MAGA is driven by hatred. The country’s really changed. Night of the Living Dead makes more sense now than it did when it was made. It’s like the people are the bad guys.
“I always believed America was the land of heroes. I watched too many movies like the John Wayne movies, Casablanca, High Noon, On the Waterfront you know movies where the American hero stands up to the bad guys. Maybe it was that way when those movies were made. Then the bad guys were a minority of outlaws. No longer. Now ordinary citizens are the bad guys and they have taken over the government. The age of heroes is over for America. It’s sickening. I’d rather live in Ukraine, a land of heroes rather than backstabbing, money worshipping Judases. America has become like that old movie Invaders from Mars where the Martians take control of people by inserting a mind control device into their necks. In the movie you can’t trust neighbors any longer. The members of the MAGA cult have had their minds implanted. They think they’re different from the BLM, ANTIFA, and the WOKE people but they ain’t. They’re all cults. America has become a nation of cults. In the movie you can tell that a person is under the control of the Martians by the puncture on their necks. With the MAGA cult it’s the hats. Like the hats take control of people’s minds. So weird.”
“You’re wearing one.”
“For self-protection. Got it from an old guy where I got gas. They were stacked up in the windows probably to show the MAGA goons that he was one of them. But he wasn’t. ‘Ed,’ he said, ‘you can’t be driving around without a MAGA hat. It’s dangerous.’ I noticed he wore one. He went back into the store and got one and gave it to me. ‘You’ve been a loyal customer, Ed. Wouldn’t want nothin to happen to you.’ So I got a MAGA hat, but figured I should hit the road until the MAGA thing blew over. It hasn’t, has it?”
“No. So that’s why you’re wearing that hat?”
“Yeah. I saw MAGAs roaming about like the walking dead looking for anyone without a MAGA hat to attack. I had to slow down for about a dozen blocking the road. One guy was revving a chainsaw like Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Another guy holding a bloody baseball bat approached the car. I pointed to my hat and they let me pass. I thought I was a goner. I was glad to get out into the wide open spaces with just nature. Fucking people!”
“Well you’re in California now and it’s safe in most places but not if you’re wearing that hat. Get rid of it. If Mexican gangbangers see you wearing it you’ll be used as a piñata. Since ICE has been unleashed, Trump has become their number one enemy. Out here Trump is considered Big Brother. So, Ed, are you looking for another place to live?”
“Maybe, but where? It would be like finding a safe cabin on the Titanic after hitting the iceberg. That’s what MAGA Trump is. A political iceberg that the good ship America just collided with.”
“Biden divided the country and the idiot Dems thought Harris could heal it. What fools. Now she might run again. Apparently she doesn’t know that old expression ‘fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.’”
“What did you expect? Politicians never learn from their mistakes because they blame everyone else for them. They just want to be celebrities, you know in the limelight until they are voted out office or drop dead from old age. They are totally disconnected from the people—the ordinary folks trying to make a living and raise a family. The government doesn’t want to represent the people. It wants the people to represent the government. I remember when Biden was a hit man for the credit card companies. He was against people declaring bankruptcy even if they over used their credit cards to pay medical bills. I never liked the man. And Harris had as much chance against the MAGA cult as a lady bug has against a steam roller.
“The Good Ship America has been hitting one political iceberg after another ever since LBJ and his Vietnam War. And now the country is sinking fast. What was Biden thinking when he allowed immigrants to flood into the country and then flew them all over the country as if he was running an immigrant travel service? It was like he was setting up Harris to lose. She was already wearing cement shoes for supporting the burning of American cities. I mean those folks came off as totally anti-American.
“I just don’t get it, none of it. Anyway, the old America’s gone. The country we’re living in has become no country for old men like in that movie. Comanche Junction was once Indian territory. Then the white people moved in. I think a lot of Americans like me think if they don’t get out of town they’ll end up like the Indians, who at least have their reservations. So now the country has become like Putin’s Russia, a MAGA dictatorship. And now the two dictators are to meet in Alaska to divvy up the spoils of war.”
“Never thought the Indians would be better off than us.”
“Until Trump closes the reservations. He’s heartless and backed up by the MAGA cult like Hitler’s brown shirts. And now he’s in control of the government. I envy the Indians having a place of their own that provides stability—you know, culturally. They deserved reservations after what the white man did to them. I wonder what black folks think about what’s going on with the MAGA predators having taken control of the country. Apparently, black lives still don’t matter. The only lives that matter are the members of the MAGA cult. Black people call black MAGAs Oreos. It’s like the Charles Manson cult has taken control of the country. Politicians have wrecked the country and now we're living among the wreckage. All people want is stability, safety, and a cultural home of their own, not a dictatorship telling everyone that they gotta live like the government says.”
“Indians have a cultural home that can’t be taken from them, but for how long is anyone’s guess with that monstrosity of a human being in the White House allowing ICE to drag people from their homes, cars, jobs, and schools. Then they disappear. It’s a lot like when the Nazis rounded up Jews and then made them disappear. Trump’s a sinister magician, making people just disappear. First, it was the Negro slaves rounded up in Africa, then the Indians exterminated or relocated, and now the Hispanics. What I discovered on the road is that the only thing that doesn’t change and is never evil is the land, nature. The hills and fields, grass and trees, the sky and clouds are all that’s left that gives me pleasure. I’d pull off where there was just nature and no people around. In the morning I’d fix breakfast and enjoy the natural surroundings while I ate. One night I pulled off the highway and searched for a place to sleep. When I woke I found myself on an Indian reservation. There was nothing but an abandoned house and an old church in the distance. When I got out of the camper, there was an Indian man waiting. He said he was a Navajo chief.”
“Friend, do you know you’re on an Indian reservation?” he asked.
“No,” I said, “I got lost during the night but had to stop or fall asleep at the wheel. I’ll get going.”
“No hurry, friend. I am Chief Old Fox. Where you headed?”
“Nowhere really. Going to visit a friend from the old days, then I don’t know.”
“Don’t you have a home?”
“Did, but I don’t feel at home there.” I showed him the MAGA hat.
“I see.”
“The town’s called Comanche Junction, but there ain’t no Indians there. Wish there were. Everything has changed like it did for your people.”
“Yes. Now my people live on islands in a world that has become stranger and stranger to us.”
“You mean your reservations.”
“They are pieces of the old world and its way of life. Have you been searching for an island of the old America for yourself?”
“Not really, but I’m thinking about it. Got to do something and soon.”
“Do you have a place in mind?”
“In a way. The old world of nature without people, a place where there are no MAGA hats or any other political hats.”
“You have no people then?”
“No longer. I feel like alien among the new Americans as your people must have felt once white people arrived. Now they are strangers even to me. I knew such change would come, but I was hoping for something better. It’s strange how nations can be wrecked by stupid ideas.”
“Very strange. Like how Marx’s ideas wrecked Russia, China, and North Korea, cutting their people off from the old ways, giving them an artificial culture based on a blueprint invented by a man who believed he knew how everyone should live. His blueprint made people artificial like robots. And now the MAGA people are changing America to the way it was when in a kind of madness Americans destroyed nature and its people, the Indians and the wild creatures. They were motivated by greed and hate.”
“And the cult has taken control of the government. Old timers like me feel like we’re living in the end times for America. But that wasn’t true for your people. Conquest just cut you off, didn’t completely destroy you. You still have your culture.”
“Yes and no. The old ways can’t exist when the people of those ways have been destroyed or cut off from their old way of life. Your people brought with them an idea—Christianity—they used to replace the old beliefs, but many of us prefer the old ways, but others think them foolish. So yes, I know what you’re feeling. I have felt the same way.”
“Do they think the old beliefs are more foolish than Christianity?”
“As I said the old beliefs were rooted in a way of life that has disappeared. We do not interact with the Earth world as our ancestors did. And the white man’s religion does not encourage us to do so. We’ve adopted the white man’s way of living and lost our own. We do not live with the land as our ancestors did.”
“Why did Indian become Christians?”
“Most had no choice. It was forced upon them. But the conquest of the white man proved that our beliefs lacked power. The Ghost Dance was the last attempt of the Indians to call upon their spirits to defeat their enemy by making them impervious to bullets. The result was the Battle of Wounded Knee. The Indians were defeated and so were their beliefs. So, many accepted the religion of the people who defeated them.”
“Why not just do without?”
“That goes against our nature. People need something to believe in and to us nature is both sacred and mysterious, so we think spiritual forces are at work in nature.”
“What about you?”
“To become a Christian, one must give up Earth as the center of values. One doesn’t need a religion to consider Earth as sacred. And we can’t go back to old religion, though we still tell the stories and perform the old ceremonies.”
“So what is sacred?”
“Everything in nature is sacred.”
“Do all your people feel that way?”
“Most do. Though many of our young people have lost their way because of the influence of the white man, but even those who have lost their way still respect nature. Its value exists beyond the religious myths of the white man and even those of the Indian.”
“I suppose there is no room for a white man on the reservation.”
“You’d have to marry an Indian woman, but there are places where you could live near the reservation and away from your people. Is that what you want?”
“I would like to live close to nature and away from my people, yes.”
“I understand. And you carry your home with you, so perhaps it is possible. You cannot be one of us, but we will not ignore you if you fall into difficulty.”
“Like if I got sick.”
“Yes. We would not abandon you just because you are not one of us.”
“I appreciate that, but tell me does anyone live in that house?”
“No. It was the home of a couple. The man was a farmer. He owned much land. And he hired many of our men to help him work it. His name was Ralph. We stand on the land that was once his, but when he became sick he willed that once his wife died his farm the farm would be given to us.”
“And his wife agreed?”
“Her name was Susan. She was a doctor who cared for us for many years. They had no children. She knew us better than her husband did. She loved us, and that is why the house is sacred to us. It is no longer a place to be lived in.”
“And the church? It looks abandoned.”
“It is, but it is still respected. There is an interesting story about the doctor and the church. Would you like to hear it?”
“I told the old chief that I would. This is what he told me.”
Susan went to church every Sunday, but stopped after her husband died. He never went to church but she did. One Sunday she was found by Deer Woman, a medicine woman. Susan was sitting on the side of the road looking very sad. Her husband had died a month earlier. Deer Woman asked her why hadn’t gone to church. Susan responded saying, “What's the point? Ralph’s dead and I know he isn’t in Heaven because there is no such place. All they do in church is worship an old book.”
Deer Woman said that she understood her sadness because she too had lost her husband.
“But you still have something,” said Susan, “your people and your beliefs. I have nothing”
“You have your own people.”
“No I don’t. They’ve become strangers to me. I have no religion. I’m too old to work. I have no people. Tell me, Deer Woman, what I should do?”
“You have your garden and orchard where you spend much of your time. And you have us though you are not one of us.”
“There was a time when your people found religion in nature.”
“We still do,” said Deer Woman. “It’s not like your people’s religion. There are ceremonies but no lectures because there is no book. We enjoy ceremonies. They are not about us but about our connection with the earth and sky and all their creatures. Words are not needed in our religion. Neither are the ceremonies. They are expression of love and appreciation, not for god but for the Earth-World. And they connect us with our ancestors.”
“Is the Earth-World your god?”
“We have no god, Susan. We have spirits. Each thing possesses a spirit so is given a spirit name that allows us to communicate with it. Corn Mother is such a name. We can pray to her to make our corn plants healthy and strong. As we care for our corn plants we feel her presence.”
“So plants and animals are spirits. Does that mean they are supernatural?”
“No, because they are natural. What they are is mysterious. White people think of a deer as an animal, a tree as a plant, the earth as a planet and the sun as a star. They are just objects to white people. But too us they are mysteries. There is a white man here who lives on the reservation who understands what I’m telling you better than me. We consider him a wise man because he possesses much knowledge that is different from ours. But Susan you do not need knowledge to be wise and to live wisely. I believe you already possess wisdom. You were a doctor and still are if needed. Your husband gave land to the Indian people and you welcomed him doing so. Now you spend time among the plants and creatures of your garden and orchard. I think you are wise but do not know that you are. I think you have a religion that is truer and kinder than the one preached in the church.”
“I like that. I want a religion but don’t know where to find it. The church seems dead to me. Services are only once a month and the only people there are a few elders, all Indians. White people don’t come because Indians are there. The church is meaningless. Still I long for something to worship.”
“Susan, I think you have a religion. It is your garden and orchard. I often see you wandering among the trees.’”
“I love trees.”
“Then I shall name you woman who loves trees.”
“I like that name.”
“Then that is how you will be known among my people. Susan, woman who loves trees.”
“After Susan was named woman who loves trees by Deer Woman she would be seen standing among the trees of her orchard as if she was communicating with them in some mysterious way. And among her trees is where Susan is buried. The ground and the orchard are holy, but you can visit her grave if you wish. Many of our people do, out of respect for her. They made a stone bench where you can sit and think. The name on the head stone, however, is not Susan but woman who loves trees.”
“So I cannot speak to her.”
“No,” said the old chief.
“I asked if the wise man Deer Woman spoke of was still alive.”
“Yes, and you should visit him if you are serious about living apart from your people.”
“I will, Chief Old Fox, but I must see an old friend. He and I are both old and not long for this world. After that I will return if I can and visit this wise man and see if he can help me find a place to set up a camp. Are there other whites who have done that?”
“Yes, but they do not live on the reservation like the wise man who had married a Navajo woman. They live in the wild lands. We have seen more whites come to the wild lands with trailers to settle on government land. I do not know if it’s legal. You may do that as well. Many animals are sensitive to changes that threaten them. They flee to places of safety. I think that is true for many white people today. They no longer feel safe or at home among their own people. It’s a sad thing. The Indian has never felt that way.”
“Well I feel that way. I have a MAGA hat in the truck that I have to wear to keep from being beaten or killed by the MAGA ghouls.”
“You’ve become like your black people. Unsafe among whites”
“For some people America has never been a safe place.”
“If you think you might return to stay awhile, then speak to the white man. He is considered a wise man by us. Like I said, he married one of us, so he lives on the reservation but only at its border.”
* * *
“So the old Chief gave me directions to the white man. He said to tell him that Chief Old Fox sent me to him. I decided to see the white man before leaving. I was hoping he would advise me on what I might do. After an hour driving in wildlands of the Navajo reservation I came upon a weathered mobile home that looked like it had been there for years. It had a fenced in area for chickens and a small garden. Outside was a faded blue Ford pickup perhaps ten years old. As I got out of the truck an old bearded man and a couple dogs came to greet me. I said hello and told him my name and that Chief Old Fox sent me.”
“He did did he? Well, you’re welcome. My name is Jim. So what can I do for you?”
“I’ve come from Texas, escaped is more like it. The MAGAs have taken over. And now I just want to get away from people.”
“Well, Ed. You’re not the first. Trump and his MAGAs have got a lot of people scared.”
“They come to live here?”
“Some that have trailers like mine are looking for a place to park them for a while. Most then move on. I know some have parked their trailers on government land.”
“So not many stay?”
“It ain’t easy. Why don’t you take a seat, Ed, I’ll get you a glass of water. You look dry.”
“While he was in the trailer I sat in one of the folding chairs and examined his outfit. The top of the trailer was covered with solar panels. When he came back he gave me a cup of water in one of those blue Coleman camping cups that we used to use when camping. Then he sat down.”
“Jim, you have a pretty nice setup here, with those solar panels.”
“I have a generator for emergencies, but the solar panels give me all the energy I need. I shower once every couple weeks in cold water. I use the Internet for news mostly. I eat simple, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, and tuna sandwiches. I get my veggies from can corn, green beans, peas, pinto beans, and chili. Still, I have to drive to the store every couple of weeks to recycle cans and stock up on water and food.”
“You’re not living in luxury then”
“Actually I am. My luxury is nature, my chickens, and my dogs Happy and Rose. And I get a visitor now and then, like you.”
“You were married to a Navajo woman.”
“I was. She’s buried nearby. I visit her if I’m feeling lonely.”
“Do you eat your chickens?”
“I wouldn’t eat one of them than I would one of my dogs. They’re companions and the most entertaining creatures.”
“Jim, do you think I could make it out here.”
“You’d have to be off the reservation, and you would need more than that camper of yours if you would want to set up more than a few days.”
“Do MAGAs come out here?”
“I haven’t seen any. We’re pretty independent out here. Even the authorities don’t like MAGAs or their cult leader Orange Man.”
“The authorities, like who?”
“Like Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. They don’t have much use for the feds. Never liked them all that much anyway. They don’t trust them. They’re loyal to their own people, not to politicians and their thugs. Unlike the do-nothing politicians, we’re not afraid of them. Live free, die free is our motto.”
“Chief Old Fox said you’re a wise man.”
“Did he now? I’m no wiser than him or the other leaders of the tribe. I would say the Navajo are a wise people, wiser than ours clearly. I suppose that I’ve chosen to live close to nature apart from people gives the impression of wisdom. But they do as well. The Navajo are an ancient people who prefer living close to nature and away from the madness of cities. So I suppose because the crazy MAGA cult has taken control of the country, you’re looking to escape the craziness.”
“Pretty much. You know when I was a kid America was a special place, but no longer. I never thought I’d see the country fall apart. That seemed impossible. Now it’s become evil like Putin’s Russia. I mean how was that possible?”
“Don’t know. I came here long before the MAGA madness.”
“Because you married a Navajo woman.”
“Yes, Doli, Navajo for bluebird. She asked if I would live on the reservation. And I said of course. You’re old enough to remember the hippies, right?”
“I remember them very well. I even attended a few love-ins. Great fun. It was during the Vietnam War. The government was as sick then as it is today, but people were still joyful, not hateful like now. What about them?”
“Well, I lived on a commune for a while. The hippies understood there was a better way to live life, a way more natural and less artificial. I agreed though my background was quite different. I was studying engineering, but decided to join the Navy rather than getting drafted into the Army. In the Navy I became an electrician. After I got out of the service I let my hair grow long. I wanted to put Vietnam behind me. I got a general science degree and really didn’t know what to do. I certainly didn’t want to work for a corporation and wanted to get away from crowds of people. That’s when I got pulled in with the hippie culture. The hippies I knew were more into books than into drugs though we smoked a lot of cannabis to liberate our minds. What they wanted was a way of life very similar to the one lived by the Navajo, an organic way of life. But the commune didn’t last. It had no roots, no culture. It was just an idea, a waystation for young people for whom the American dream had soured, like today. And what they were looking for was more of an idea than a reality. And most knew that. They wanted a way of life that earth-bound, like the life celebrated by Henry David Thoreau, Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whiteman, and many other earth-clan thinkers. It was Thomas Jefferson’s philosophy of the yeoman farmer who lives independently away from the corrupting influences of cities and politicians.”
“But it didn’t work out.’”
“It couldn’t. Like I said it was rootless. So were we really.’”
“Then what?”
“Like the others, I moved on and became a science teacher in Albuquerque. But I didn’t like the city. Too big, too many freeways, and poor air quality. And lots of violence. Saw an ad for an electrician at the Gallup Indian Medical Center, so that’s where I went and where I met Doli who worked there as a nurse. She wasn’t a city girl. She lived on the reservation. Once we got serious she asked me if I would be willing to live on the reservation, which meant getting married. I said yeah. It was like a bonus for me. I was crazy about her and wanted to live close to nature and away from people, my people, I suppose.”
“And you lived in this trailer.”
“Yeah. I was an outsider so really wasn’t part of the tribe. And I didn’t want to be seen as an intruder. So the trailer was the easiest solution, parked just inside the reservation.”
“Did you get along with the people?”
“Of course. They’re no different from us. Doli had a sister and two brothers. I taught the older brother to be an electrician. But I didn’t hang out with the people. I wasn’t a Navajo. Still, I interacted with them. They would ask me to do electrical work when there was a problem. I wasn’t one of them, but I was a welcomed outsider. I think my being seen as a nature hermit made it easier for them to accept me. Actually, my being into nature is what Doli liked about me.”
“Because she was into nature?”
“Big time. She had a special relationship with nature. She said it came to her as a child. Her motivation wasn’t intellectual but emotional. She felt she belong to nature. It was more her home than even the tribe. She’d go off for days, like on some vision quest. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. In a way she was as wild as the creatures she loved.”
“You didn’t go with her?”
“No. Of course, we took lots of walks together just like other love birds, but that wasn’t same thing. She often took Rose, the golden colored dog. Happy came later after Doli died. I was coming home from the hospital and saw him the side of the road. A pitiful sight. So I stopped to check on him. When he saw me rushed over really happy to see me. And I was happy to see him. That’s how he got his name.”
“So she found you special just because you liked nature.”
“I knew the science. I wasn’t into nature in the way she was. I knew how the Universe evolved, how life came about. She found all that really interesting. I would get her a science book at a second-hand book store and she’d read it and ask me questions. But her relationship with nature wasn’t abstract or intellectual. It was very personal, intimate. It was like she belonged to the family of plants and animals. Was it mystical? I don’t know. She would tell me about her experiences in wild, about snakes and lizards, birds, mice, and rabbits she encountered. Once a bobcat. But otherwise her relationship with the creatures, plants, mountains, rocks, or whatever was private. She said she was a creature born as a human. What kind of creature,I asked. A bird, she said. But she didn’t know what kind of bird. Maybe her relationship to nature couldn’t be put into words, so she didn’t try to.”
“But she died.”
“Yeah, worst time of my life. She got sick. We thought it was the flu, but suddenly she got worst. She was taken to the hospital, from there flown to the hospital in Albuquerque. I went by car. When I went to see her the next day, she was already gone. Made me sick. She didn’t want to be buried in a graveyard with other people but out in nature. She would say she belonged to nature, not to people. But she’s not far from me. So the dogs and I visit her.”
“You must get lonely.”
“A little. I don’t know what I feel really. I have friends, my animals, nature, but I do feel the most important part of my life was taken from me and is irreplaceable. So, Ed, tell me, what are you going to do?”
“I don’t know. Can’t stay in Comanche Junction. Need to get away from the MAGA world. I like your setup. Some animals, a garden. I could sell my place and buy a trailer like yours. I’m retired so I don’t have to work. What do you think?”
“There is a lot of empty space out here. But do some exploring. Getting a trailer like mine or a mobile home is a big step. First you should look at the small communities in New Mexico, Arizona, or Colorado. They all have small houses for sell outside of town. If you want a garden you’re going to need more than bottled water. And I’m not a hermit. I have a community. I’m just not a part of it. But if I needed help, help would come. It’s a shame that making America great again has made it unlivable for lots of people.”
“Wouldn’t mind being close enough to you to visit once in a while.”
“You’re welcome anytime, Ed. But do some exploring and have a plan in mind before you do anything. If you come up with something give me a call and tell me what you have in mind. I’ll give you some pointers if I can. I wish you well.”
* * *
“After talking to Jim, I got back on the road and headed here. Still not sure what I want to do. I like the idea of buying a piece of property in the boondocks where I could park a trailer, maybe a small mobile home.”
“I don’t know, Ed. I get it. I would like to get the hell out of California and get away from all the people, maybe the Dakotas or Vermont. Would need to find a community where making America great again doesn’t matter. A place where people just want to be let alone to work and raise families. America’s greatness is just meaningless abstractions. Work, family, and good neighbors are all that matters in life. Only dull minds like Trump and Putin think what matter is living in a great country, whatever that means. Sick minds think greatness has to do with being rich and powerful. If it weren’t for the sick minds of politicians like Putin, Jinping, and that fatso tyrant of North Korea, militaries wouldn’t be necessary because only pathological politicians start wars. The Chinese people couldn’t care less about Taiwan and the Russian people don’t care about Ukraine. Conquering them won’t improve their lives—just kill a lot of men, women, and children and destroy cities. Small countries like Norway or Sweden are greater than the U.S., Russia, and China because they don’t harm other nations and because they offer a high quality of life for ordinary folks. Yeah, I just want to get away from it all. Maybe Canada, another one of those high quality of life nations. We could do that together. Hell the population of Canada is about the same as California but the country is twenty times bigger.”
“You’ve given some thought to moving to Canada?”
“Not really, just to getting out of California. The big appeal of moving to Canada is getting away from Americans. America has become a land of cults. Fucking creepy.”
“You couldn’t leave your family.”
“No, but you know my son Bill and I have talked over moving somewhere else. You know Bill has a plumbing business.”
“Yeah.”
“He mentioned selling it and getting out of California. He says it’s too crowded and too expensive. I think he’d like a simpler life.”
“Being a plumber he could go anywhere.”
“But he couldn’t just move out into the wilderness. He has a family to care for and Jimmy needs a school. Mary’s pregnant. He said he could sell the business and start over again somewhere else. But he would need a town where he could work as a plumber. America was already in pieces before Trump came along. And Trump doesn’t get it. He want to make America great again when what the country needs is to be made whole. It never was. And I have no idea of how it could be made whole when it consists of political, religious, ideological, and just plain weird cults. And certainly Trump doesn’t know. All he does is threaten other countries, side with dictators, play golf, and come up with money-making schemes. He’s all about money. It’s a sickness. I’ll never understand how some people find him inspiring, but that goes for Putin as well. People worshiping sick minds. And doing that makes them sick. So yeah, Bill and I think we should get the family away from the sickness.”
“Me too, do the Thoreau thing. Find a pond away from people where I can live in peace with nature.”
“Sounds good. So what’s next?”
“Tomorrow I’ll head back to Comanche Junction, but I won’t be in a hurry. I will do some exploring and thinking.”
“You’re welcome to stay here, Ed.”
“Thanks, but I’ve already had enough of California, but I’ll stay in touch so we can figure out our great escape.”
“Sounds good.”