Halloween costumes are now more scrutinized and judged for
potential offense than were citizens of the former East Germany living next to
Stasi headquarters. The list of get-ups that we are not supposed to wear is
longer than the list of politically-approved outfits handed down to us by our
Elite Masters. Ethnic apparel is verboten. A sombrero? May actually cause
snowflakes to faint. Anything even gently lampooning a member of the LGBTQIA
community could get a non-LGBTQIA person thrown in jail, yet they themselves
are allowed to flagrantly- and fabulously!-
lampoon themselves…whether deliberately or not.
Yet, a
life-sized scarecrow depicting President Donald Trump was placed in a Halloween
display at Santa Clarita Elementary School in California. One of the student’s
parents noted that the Trump scarecrow was made to look scary while the other
scarecrows appeared benign.
And, a
Halloween display at West Parish Elementary School in Gloucester, Massachusetts
featured a bean-bag toss game with several fake tombstones in the immediate
vicinity. The only one of them with a specific person’s name on it was the one
that read “Donald Trump.” A sitting U.S. president. Classy.
You can be sure the person or
persons in charge of this display utterly “deplore gun violence,” “partisan rancor,”
and the “intolerant right.” What a bleeping joke! Except, this is one of the
few things that aren’t funny, because,
if we buy into their tripe, we will have lost the ability to engage in civil
discourse or live in a free society.
Schools around the country are
banning Halloween costumes, although Che Guevara shirts are still looked on
with favor by many, as are countenances of Fidel Castro, Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders. And anybody can openly mock a Christian, of course,
whether it be Anita Bryant, a Catholic priest, George W, Bush, or the Lord
Himself.
A Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters
mask should truly be unnerving, but
they are likely to go unrecognized or even applauded in this dumbed-down age.
Clown outfits are, of course, considered
terrifying, and we are all expected to laugh at those ensconced in likenesses
of Nixon, “W,” or Reagan.
Halloween or no, what’s now
happening in the United States is truly
scary.
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