Shit Values Voters

I perused Matt Bevin's remarkable story after hearing about some of the insane, treasonous, threatening comments he made at a perversely named summit of maniacal, evangelical religious fanatics. Evidently Hillary is the antichrist in intellectual, hausfrau guise.

She looks in fact like a Midwestern hausfrau but the values voters see a demon. I once spoke with someone who was in the Middle East after 9/11 but before Bush blew it up. They said they would be having a normal, rational talk with a western-educated professional.

Wham. Whoa! When 9/11 came up it was as though you had pushed a crazy button. Suddenly the doctor or engineer was foaming: it was all a plot and the buildings were brought down by explosives. Or, it looked like a disaster movie and none of those are real, right?

There you have Matt Bevin, foaming about Hillary Clinton as though he's in Cairo. Evangelical voters have to have demons because they are demons. They choose to live in that world and the belief makes it true. They don't give a shit about Jesus and the Constitution.

Hillary really rings Matt's bells. The message for America is this: it is over. We are doomed. We will be like the Middle East, incapable of rational government because rich people and religious fanatics control everything. Matt's personal story is amazing. He is accomplished.

But he's completely out of his mind. And maybe those Middle Easterners weren't. They saw the demons in Bush/Cheney and the neocons and the drive for global hegemony. They were right to be scared, considering what the neocons did. We are naive not to be more so.