OUR COUNTRY'S ANGRY DIVIDE WON'T HEAL SOON

 

Our country won't heal in my lifetime.

The divide is not information-based, but emotional.

A brilliant con was played on the populace, a con embracing two sacred symbols for hardcore, working class Americans, the Bible and the Flag.

Spit on the flag in rural Arkansas, Oklahoma or north Texas and you're in for an ass whipping.

Hold up a Bible, even upside down, in those territories, and you'll be invited inside out of the cold, to stand by the wood stove.

The magnificently beautiful Yell County in Arkansas, the valley of the Petit Jean River, stretching from Mount Nebo on the West to Petit Jean Mountain on the East, voted 80% for the con artist in 2016 and 2020.

Many of their sons, now full grown, tattooed and angry, showed their strength at the January 6 insurrection.

But, isn't the Ku Klux Klan, neo Nazism and the Confederacy incongruent with the Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Assembly of God and Church of Christ religions?

No, they coexist, if not actually blend.

Elvis sang about it, laying down your life for the cause.

"Hush little baby, don't you cry.  You know you daddy's bound to die.  All my trials, Lord, will soon be over."

Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Baker made millions clutching the same flag, holding up the same Bible.

They were con artists too, but don't tell that to a Bible-believing Arkie, Okie or north Texan unless you want to be looking down the barrel of a shotgun.