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The Second Coming Part Five: The Descent.
For the first time in history a felon will be sworn in as President of the United States of America in just 10 days time. Donald J. Trump; a known liar, convicted sexual predator, and now convicted criminal, will debase the White House for another four years as his second term begins. How much worse can it get?
‘Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood, For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, Off’ring each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever Twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper, Yet ’tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong:
Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above his own.’
James Russell Lowell.