Don’t let apathy’s death give birth to unreason

This will be known as the Death of Apathy era.

Call in the Preacher. I’m not sure how last rites helps something dying, but Apathy has been dying a while now and will soon be gone.

Apathy partly died when a conglomeration of Neo-rebels, hunters, gatherers, and even some regular people panicked at the idea of a woman being president, especially one they had told sex jokes about for a generation.

This bunch was ready to turn to sorcery, and did. The scary thing about President Donald Trump is not him, but that so near a majority of voters would vote for somebody like that. His side was not apathetic. That may be because of lies they pretended to believe, but they were interested in politics again. And as novelist James Still wrote, a man has to hold his hand up for somebody.

To be blunt about it, President Barack Obama was fairly uninspiring, which promoted apathy. He tried way too long to do the right thing with Republicans and soon it was too late. Any president who, fairly soon after taking office wins the Nobel Peace Prize, is going to be hampered thereafter. And before you knew it, Kentucky’s reverse carpetbagger senator, come from Ala-bammy with Big Money on his knee, was able to further hamper the president.

Democrats responded by nominating an uninspiring candidate who reminded people of a hall monitor. The next thing you know, that which needn’t have happened did, and the outrageous conduct that followed has reawakened the other side. Apathy is dying among Democrats, too.

So the point is this: You must be careful in the time right after Apathy dies. The zeal of recent converts and the demands they make on the political sector are dangerous, leading to unreason. It could turn out that in one political party it is “dog eat dog” and in the other it is exactly the opposite.

For instance, which is worse in the long term: refusing to honor a presidential election by not allowing a vote on a Supreme Court nominee, or disqualifying a presidential nominee on the basis of stuff he did while drunk in high school?

One is about as bad as the other. The former destroys the Constitution and scoffs at democracy, and the latter will lead to judges at all levels who never even masturbated. Both are products of excess zeal, the demands of the newly awakened.

Women are no longer apathetic about the degree of sexual aggression men display, with the possible exception of evangelical women, whom God has commanded they treat Trump like the woman at the well was treated, but to do it over and over.

Women will soon be chasing men with sticks and maybe we deserve it, but they had better watch out. Fertility rates are already down. The kind of sex which doesn’t cause birth is becoming more popular. We do not want humans to lose their place in the evolutionary competition just because some 17-year-old kid who had only gone to boys’ school thought you could just jump on a girl.