November 12, 2025
A response to Kelly Scoles’ letter:
Hi Kelly,
I guess I’ve just run out of enthusiasm for the issues you raised this week. I know they’re important, but I’m tired of snarky political name-calling and charges that lead us nowhere. The whole political landscape has changed, not just local, state, and national, but global. Things have never been this churned-up since WWII. I’m responsible for my share of snarkiness as well, but it’s past time for me to get more serious, which I will do.
The Democrat Party has calcified and sunk to the bottom of the extreme Left swamp. It has become a truly socialist-communist-anti-Judeo-Christian cult (Haven’t used so many dashes before). Anyway, I was raised at a time when Communism was recognized to be essentially evil and dangerous, truly satanic. Ironically, it became prominent immediately following the end of WWII. Since 1917, this philosophy still holds the record for global homicide, with Chairman Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot (types) always the band majors leading the slaughter with a stream of minors following. Islam has also been killing infidels (i.e. everyone but themselves) since before 1623 and are ascendant again. So, what’s new? It’s always the same kind of people, those who worship the concept of “might makes right” in themselves.
Many now believe in the validity of widespread Christian prophies and their total reordering of a wayward society. We will see.
A recent example of atheistic-communistic rot can be seen in the plans of Ross Callvin, founder of the American Colossus Foundation and bitcoin-mining company Parhelion. According to his foundation’s website the proposed monument would be “taller than the 305-foot high Statue of Liberty” serving as a “beacon of optimism” at a cost of $450m. “The statue will be built to lift up men’s spirits in triumph and heroism [hedonism?] -- that creative ingenuity is heroic, and “SELFHOOD” is SACROSANCT.” (emphasis mine) Didn’t we learn anything from those profits of Baal? The whole idea of this statue should be repugnant to traditional American citizens.
The recent trend seems to welcome these socialists and communists from the Democrat Party: As of September 15, 2024
Greg Casar, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Danny Davis, Bernia Sanders, and Cori Bush identified randomly. I should add Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected Socialist Mayor. Democrats also swept offices across the east coast.
Note: Just lost 200 words too close to deadline to recover. My apologies.