The British mystery author, Edmund Crispin, wrote in his book “Buried for Pleasure” aptly fortelling our current situation in the United States, and most would include the rest of the world also.

“A contemporary French writer has pointed out with unanswerable logic that men adopt ideas, not because it seems to them those ideas are true,or because it seems to them that those ideas are true, or because it seems to them those ideas are expedient, but because those ideas satisfy a basic emotional need of their nature. Now what emotion -I ask you- provides the chief motive power of the politically obsessed? You do not answer, because you have never given the matter a moment’s thought. But were you to do so,you might dimly perceive that the reply to my question is the monosyllable HATE.

Never forget that the politcal zealots are people who are over indulging their emotional need of hatred. They have ,of course, their “constructive” programs, but it is not these which supply the fuel for their squalid engines; it is the concomitant attacks, upon a class and a system,a personality; it is the lust to defame and destroy. Let no such men be trusted.

That they have landed themselves, here and hereafter,in the most arid of of all the hells is a circumstance which I confess does not greatly distress me, and with that spiritual aspect of the matter I do not propose to deal.