Jack of Harts

I watched the recent President Biden speech. From when the Marines marched in until Biden’s upbeat ending. I watched the lights turn blood red. I watched the Biden’s march up to the speaking stand to the martial music. I watched Biden shake his fist for the camera and yell angrily. I had the feeling that I’ve seen this speech before, many times, in historical recordings of speeches made over the last hundred years. The way he singled out a large group of citizens and called them a threat to the nation. How he accused those citizens of believing things and doing things that are antithetical to civilization, many of those things being what his own leadership has encouraged, and his own people have done. I have seen this kind of speech and rhetoric before, and those nations that remained on that path have progressed through dangerous and deadly ground for years or decades to come. We must stop this. Or what will come next will be far more dangerous for all of us.