The Fearful Season
As we get closer to a supposedly extremely important election this upcoming Tuesday, there is one thing that resounds through all the hype. Fear . Everyone is fearful of everyone and everything. In some way or another, the expressions of rage and disgust broadcast from all sides really amount to a whole lot of fear. You can cut it with a knife it is so thick. And yet in the national psyche there is a palpable desire to seethe and holler and scratch and claw about the favored cause -- it is so righteous! And it feels sooo good. The most typical is "Trump is a Nazi!" accompanied by the contrasting "Trump is making the country great!" Oh that these seasoned Catholicists would see the oppressive fear the authorized World Ops are interminably generating and turn authentically to The One Who Frees From All That. I don't have much time to blog, I just have so much to do with family and work, I think I've reminded my readers of this a number of times. Oh t...