CHARLES HAYES - A President Is Elected: November 7, 2020

Charles Hayes, a multiple Pushcart Prize Nominee, is an American who lives part time in the Philippines and part time in Seattle with his wife. A product of the Appalachian Mountains, his writing has appeared in Ky Story’s Anthology Collection, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Fable Online, Unbroken Journal, CC&D Magazine, Random Sample Review, The Zodiac Review, eFiction Magazine, Saturday Night Reader, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Scarlet Leaf Publishing House, Burning Word Journal, eFiction India, Blue Lake Review and others.

​A PRESIDENT IS ELECTED: NOVEMBER 7, 2020  

​On the ground outside a rural German town near an old World War Two Jewish concentration camp lie three small plaques. This is the spot where a few of the holocaust victims that died in the camp are buried.
     When American troops liberated this concentration camp these memorialized dead were discovered stuffed into the doorway of one of the buildings. After gathering their bodies into a jeep wagon, the Americans pulled them into the center of the small town and called the inhabitants out.
     The townspeople gathered as the American Officer, from his perch atop the back of the jeep and the connecting wagon tongue, informed them that they had been aware of what was taking place in this camp and that, in fact, they had supported and abetted it. Therefore, they should carry the dead to the edge of town and properly bury them. Not feeling to kindly, the American Officer paused in his instructions just long enough to take a deep breath and survey the frowning faces of the German populace,
     “Or Else!!!”
    
To this day that memorial is kept by that German town and it is done with honor.
     
I think that a similar memorial, done in a similar manner, should be placed outside a small rural American Heartland town to commemorate the quarter of a million Americans dead from the coronavirus hoax. 
 

​The Republican Psyche: A Dire Prognosis

​Psychological repression, guilt, and reality has finally confronted one another in the republican party and the collateral damage is immense.
     It took decades for today's republican party to create itself. Sadly, we now have the present republican party trying to kill us if we are not one of them. How did we get here?
     As Abe Lincoln's republican party changed as it transited the 20th century, today's republican party has also changed from acceptable repressive denial to plain murderous greed and lying.
     For too long our republican government's policy, and the guilt driven denial that comes with it, has in reality been a means to more personal income or other selfish needs. However this behavior has at long last lost its efficacy and consequently there are some republicans that realize this and want out. For them, repressive denial can no longer exist for the psychological curtains that had previously covered their psyches have been pulled wide open. Now, to wash themselves of this guilt, if possible, they must first admit the truth. A dire prognosis.
     Half of this country has perpetrated this selfish approach to government and who, that is not one of them, wants to unite with such a bunch? In reality there can no longer be a united America because, for those not caught up in this rekoning, that would be suicide by government. As with so many things only hell can pay. Just leave the asylums aside.