In the famous book by Mary W. Shelly, a scientist creates a creature, a humanoid, from the remains of deceased people and reanimates him. The monster is quickly out of control and kills people in the nearby community, eventually causing angry mobs, torches and pitchfork action.
In a particular scene that was cut out of the movie early on (too disturbing for people of the time), the monster is charmed by a little girl who is seen throwing flowers into a river. He is clearly smitten by the child but throws her into the water, to her demise. In the context of the story, he was just throwing flowers into the water like the child had been doing, but the child was dead, nonetheless, and the townspeople were outraged. Nobody cared about the monster’s feelings or perspective.
Fast-forward to 21st Century America, now deep into a coup led by trump republicans who are utterly above the law, with a population that insists on watching sports and people in fancy clothing walk on rugs while these republicans kill their kids and families with COVID19. The Frankenstein story would go much differently in this milieu.
In our modern story, an entire criminal political party builds the monster Donald Trump, a seemingly clownish buffoon of a monster: part child molester and rapist, part drug-addict, known sex trafficker, allied with Russian Organized crime, and has committed a variety of known treasonous acts, nonetheless lives comfortably on an archipelago of golf courses, is (apparently) super-wealthy and a known multi-national organized crime figure, despite being dumber than a hammer.
He gets elected president. Twice-impeached, the monster still has never really experienced consequences.
Get this: The People INSISTED the monster had to remain in office until the very last nanosecond or the country “would have been harmed”.
Now he is untouchable and totally above the law.
This modern monster has de facto control of a large part of the most powerful political entity in America and has a following of wanna-be deplorable monsters. It has all gone off the rails, out of control, has killed hundreds of thousands of people with the monster’s biowar application of a pandemic virus (anti-mask and anti-vax policies). But nothing has been done to even slow it down.
The townspeople aren’t moved to do ANYTHING about it. They willingly send their children into buildings where the virus thrives and does its thing and believe all manner of false information over established science. Many were radicalized by the monster’s political party to rail against infection control protocols. They take EVERYTHING but the actual vaccine. By and large all these people — followers — have 2-digit IQs. They just aren’t bright enough to sort all this out.
The monster and his political allies enjoy vast protection from the law and many who would like to bring him and his party down insist — INSIST! - there is just nothing we can do but wait patiently on the Wheels of Justice to grind, grind grind so slowly. Despite all the people he has killed, the treason he has committed and the people he has hurt.
Trump’s republicans are currently waging a multi-level assault on the US Federal government and have largely hobbled the rule of law. Nothing is being done to stop this, either. If it is wrong, it’s got a huge greenlight in America. Americans insist on letting this happen as well.
Any talk of angry mobs and torches and pitchforks — or other time-honored efforts to defend ourselves - is unacceptable and “uncivil” to the monster’s rights. It is far better to be ongoing helpless victims than even THINK of doing something to slow things down or protect ourselves from what’s just ahead.
Whereas the townspeople in the 1800s went on the warpath after the monster killed 1 child, our modern townspeople send their children to their deaths in school building still infected with the #COVID19 pandemic and with republican governors and the Monster himself denigrating masks, vaccines and infection control efforts. The people just sent their kids to their deaths.
For the Monster.
No riots. No protests. The townspeople let the republicans kill them and their families, and even tolerate the political party that insisted on creating this whole situation. It is still totally verboten to even suggest angry mobs putting an end to this charade. It is wrong to do anything to defend yourself from the creature’s agenda.
No, in the 21st century in America tolerating every last needless abuse is called “civility”. We must wait long periods of time and then vote against the monster, and call that power.
So a monster and his political party wages a war against Americans, who lay there and take it, and call it responsible serious adult behavior, and the best we can hope to do.
You are all wrong.
We don’t have to put up with this shit.
We can do stuff.
We have rights.
We must act up now.