A truly frightening Halloween

Halloween 2024. Just like many Halloweens before this, the ghosts, ghouls, goblins and the undead are around us. Skeletons loom over front yards and spider webs stretch to give their giant 8-legged denizens a place to pray on unsuspecting passers by. Yet this is a truly scary time. Scarier than we might ever have imagined. Because a true monster is walking among us. And this monster is real. He hides behind his orange makeup but this is only a thin veil and really he is hiding in plain sight. He is tapping into our fears. Making us worry about the “other”, those who are different from us. He conjures up horrific acts, getting us to imagine that rapes and murders are taking place on every street corner. And these are being done by the “others” that only he has the power to control. He will cast these others out, like the witches were cast out of Salem, Massachusetts all those decades ago. Cast them out and only then can we be safe. If you doubt these claims about brutal crimes, he taps into more sinister fears. Fears that your dogs and cats, your beloved pets, are being eaten by these others. Eaten in the streets of Ohio. No neighborhood is safe. And he speaks of a very demonic sounding “enemy within”. This conjures up images of that Alien life form that took up host in the unsuspecting space explorer, only to be birthed in a blood outburst after reaching its first stage of life. But this monster will not tolerate the “enemy within”. He will call down wrath upon them, even using the U.S. military against them if he deems fit. We have all seen him in one of his unholy trances, under control of the evil spirits as he swayed on a stage for almost 40 minutes, communing with his evil overlords. His earthly minions march like hordes of the undead to hear him speak. They wear blood red hats in homage to the bloody sacrifice and bloody vengeance they yearn to wreak in his name. Sometimes at these gatherings, he speaks in another language that no one can understand, yet somehow they all still cheer and support him. He cares not a whit about anyone but himself. He wants it all. He wants to have power over all of us. He wants to rule with an iron fist like those other walking monsters that he reveres - Hitler and Mussolini and Victor Orban. He is a defiler of women and sees them only as objects for his pleasure. He doesn’t see the Earth as a fragile home for humanity. It is another object for him to plunder and expand his riches. He may be the most formidable monster we have ever had to deal with. But, collectively, we have the power to destroy him. It won’t take a cross or a wooden stake through the heart. All it will take is your vote. Don’t let the monster live. Send him back to the underworld to live with his kind. Vanquish him from our lives forever.