As liberals, If we weren’t busy paving the path to hell with good intentions, then we would have idle hands, which I’m told do work for the devil. I’ve been so worn down by this circular stupidity being cast in my direction that if the devil was hiring for a project, I might take him up on his offer out of sheer trying to do something to improve things here.

Meanwhile conservatives, from their curated perch of moral superiority, pave the path to heaven with privately funded toll roads. One can’t get in if he doesn’t pay, and like all those ‘what would Jesus do?’ bumper magnets, it’s just as empty and pointless if it’s filled by the likes of you. Take your weary scratch off tickets and slither back to the deserted wastelands you crawled from.

Of course we’re not just talking about roads here, we’re talking about rights. In my lifetime one party has been about expanding them, the other has been about taking them away from everyone but straight white men, pausing only to defend an outdated musket rights amendment.

Another mass shooting happened in Buffalo last weekend, and I have no confidence any meaningful change will come about as a result. Ten more people will take that stroll up the road to St. Peter, how can he possibly judge them when the crime that caused their death in 2022 was skin color? 

As an imperfect person, what place do I have to judge anyone you might be asking? These are simply observations and criticisms of the world around me that I can talk about with a clean concience because I subscribe to the gospel of: Do no harm. The choices I make and the actions I take in my life are firmly rooted in this concept, and I think there are a lot of people who would do well to follow.

After all, this belief is rooted in the Hippocratic oath that all physicians in the modern world have agreed to abide by. I live my life to do no harm to others with my actions, and limit the consequences of the ones I can live with, like hangovers. I don’t want harm-inducing republican votes to happen, or result in any of the abhorent things they believe in, but I would never attempt to re-engineer the structure of voting to take away the rights of them to make the wrong decisions.

Maybe, they will eventually choose to leave our minds and bodies out of their agenda this time and do no harm to the rest of us, but I doubt it. If the Pennsylvania primary is any indication, we are in for high surf on the sea of stupidity again this year, with no end in sight. The next time you ask the question, ‘What would Jesus do?’ and the answer isn’t, ‘Buy a Prius’ you can drive straight to hell.