Evil Has Once More been unleashed upon the World

[cilla4progress]

by trump. I really believe this. We have seen periods of this before - world wars.

This portends something at least as bad.

[Glorfindel]

1. It has never really been leashed. It just cowered in a corner, licking its wounds,

awaiting the voice of its master.

"The Second Coming"

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

W. B. Yeats
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"The worst are full of passionate intensity." Indeed they are.

[cilla4progress]

5. So true.

When did he write this?

[First Speaker]

10. 1919, at the end of World War One...

Yeats was influenced by the war itself, the Troubles in Ireland, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Shortly before his death in 1939 he also saw it as a prophecy of fascism. It remains relevant, doesn't it...?...

[Eko]

7. Yeats is awesome.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

[0rganism]

15. "A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun"

yep, seen that one on TV a few too many times...

[Dawson Leery]

2. Voters who backed Trump unleashed this.

Russia unleashed this.
The Right Wing Hate Machine unleashed this.
James Comey unleashed this.

[Initech]

3. The real evil doesn't reside at the White House, it resides at the Kremlin.

Putin is the one who is unleashing this evil on us.

[violetpastille]

4. The real brains of the outfit doesn't reside in the WH.

But

Trump is certainly evil. What he did to the Central Park Five couldn't have been done by anyone who hadn't given himself over completely to the Dark Side.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, Putin saw what he loved get choked to death right in front of him and he could do nothing about

... it but turn into a self serving bastard.

I truly believe revenge is part of his plan as well as Russian strength reemerging as a very influencing force world wide.

I can't see how the people of Russia follow him though after he cuts their benefits and there's a rise in income equality there.

Tons of lying going on or there's a cult mentality around him.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. The real evil resides at about 25,000,000 American homes

[roamer65]

6. I think Iran and Saudi Arabia are gonna go face to face soon.

The Great Middle East War will morph into WW3.

[murielm99]

8. Years ago, I read a short story that I recall

every once in awhile.

The narrator relates his visit to a monastery somewhere in Europe, I think. He finds a man in a cage. The caged man is sad and pathetic. The visitor frees the man from his cage.

The monks become very agitated. They tell the visitor that the caged man was actually the devil. The visitor leaves, not believing the monks.

After WWII and all its horrors, the visitor revisits the monks. They remember him and tell him that everything is getting better. They have recaptured the devil and put him back in the cage.

Scoff if you will. The story stuck with me, even though I cannot remember the title or the author.

Maybe the devil has slipped from his cage and we need to put him back.

[First Speaker]

11. There was a Twilight Zone episode very much like that...

...only in that, the man believed the monks and spent the rest of his life searching for the Devil...

[Demonaut]

9. I've thought this for months, do we have the strength to defeat it before it consumes us again?

[murielm99]

12. Those of us here who know what is right

may have to band together with some of the other Western democracies. The whole world is threatened by 45. We know this.

There may be war. If it is not a nuclear war, there may be need of an active underground.

I am almost certain there will be violence.

[Separation]

16. Hopefully

Hopefully, the first shots of this Civil War will be "civil" and on November 6th, 2018. a clear message will be sent to the White House and the rest of his criminal cabal.

[bluestarone]

17. TRUE words spoken here!!!