I thought the ethical standards of our world were plummeting this century, but the pace of the plummet this past week feels as if a galactic firehose sent a gigantic stream rocketing through our society, whisking every last trace of moral value irretrievably into an abyss. There appears to be no bottom to the mean-spiritedness of our crime-boss-run society at this point. Hundreds of lives are being wrecked every day. It’s hard to think of what one can do in the face of this extreme vitriol directed toward ordinary Americans trying to live peacefully with our families.

Perhaps choose which bridge to live under after the inevitable collapse?

A tiny piece of this is DEI, which corporations, all lovely people to their friends I’m sure, can’t dump fast enough, and some incredible optimists suggest if we boycott them it will matter. In case you agree, the current list includes Target, Walmart, Meta, Amazon, Molson Coors, McDonald’s, Tractor Supply, Caterpillar, John Deere, Lowe’s, Ford, Toyota, Brown Forman (Jack Daniels), and Harley-Davidson.

Probably the list will continue to grow.

DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion, basically the idea being that no person should be denied opportunity or respect based on physical or cultural traits. It sounds so benign!–especially since no brain-owning adult can be completely ignorant of the mass murder and enslavement used to seize and plunder the Americas and provide generational wealth to the perps and their descendants (including moi).

Until last week I had thought that the Red Meanies would leave the rest of us alone once they won, but no, they want us to Suffer, Grovel, and even Die. At least we are clear now on the true nature of humanity. Unlike any other animal, humans like to control, confine, torture, taunt, bully, and debase each other, for no particular reason.

Many of us are craven as well, requiring zero pressure to turn into active haters, though a minority are bold. Companies re-committing to DEI post-deluge include Costco, Apple, Pinterest, Microsoft, e.l.f. Beauty, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, and Goldman Sachs.

I guess there are still a few places I can shop, at least for the moment.

The weirdest thing about this is how Christians have gone from peace-loving lambs to violence-inflicting lions in less than a generation. Think about the things Jesus did in the New Testament: turn the other cheek, be a Good Samaritan, heal the sick, feed the poor, wash feet, and forgive everyone, even those who killed him. He was also not much of a capitalist, reportedly driving the money changers and merchants out of the temple.

Now churches are encouraging open carry at services and running raffles to win AR-15s. Persons acting so un-Christ-like really should choose another name to rally under. But they won’t. That would be a moral choice.