Witches, Justice Kavanaugh and the Nut Squad

There is a member of the nut squad who is declaring, with some urgency, that there is a problem with  witches performing incantations against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.  This mental lightweight is using this as an example of the ire of the left against Justice Kavanaugh.  It is telling that the right did not invoke self-described witches when Obama appointed the liberal Sotomayor and Kagan, they just ran a candidate that could win.  But more on this in a moment.

Let me point out that Americans do have a legitimate reason to worry about Antifa and other violent anarchists.  These mindless, spoiled brats are being encouraged, financed (I doubt any of these spoiled brats have had to earn a dime in their cossetted lives) and goaded on by the leftists in the media and the Democratic party.  Between Holder and Clinton they are getting all the pretended moral justification they need to commit acts of violence.  But with those legitimate worries, why are we interviewing idiots who believe in witches?  

This country faces tough problems with tough solutions.  These issues usually don’t have the drama or hysterical high that childish fantasies produce.  So instead of real problem solving we have people wasting what little mental resources they seem to possess on one comic book crisis after another! 

Let me use an old example.  Some time ago a woman in Georgia won a restraining order against a man who had been stalking her for months.  She had met him when he answered her advertisement in a singles column.  In the ad she described herself as a, “wiccan” priestess—a witch!  She was then shocked that she didn’t attract an intelligent, emotionally mature male.  Instead she got a weird, obsessive stalker.  Whom did she think she was going to get?

Yes, stalkers are bad and should be snipped and then locked up until they heal.  No, no person should have to put up with the unwanted attentions of another.  But it seems to me that any adult who calls herself a witch should not be expected to be taken seriously.  Do adults have to be told that there are no such things as witches?  Didn’t we learn that sometime between the Salem Witch Trials and the dawning of the nuclear age?  What seems to be going on here is that the mantra of tolerance, which rightly began as a way to combat institutionalized prejudice, has been carried to an extreme that says we can no longer refer to anyone as a crackpot.

I should not have to point this out, but here goes:  there is no Santa Claus, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, and there are no such things as witches.  You might think you are a witch, you might want to be a witch, you might go around trying to turn people into newts, but you are not a witch.  You might just as well tell people you are the Queen of England.  For pity sake, people, grow up!  Magicians do tricks, not feats of magic.  Psychics and astrologers can tell a sucker, but not the future.  The only aliens who have landed in New Mexico are the ones who came across the border.  And, in case you are wondering, the Earth is not flat!

We have a culture that is busy creating imaginary demons because it doesn’t have the head, heart, and hands to tackle the real ones.  This nation has serious problems and it needs a citizenry who wants to work with facts, data and science, not wasting time on the imagined threat of wart-faced women flying around on brooms and trying to hex the Supreme Court. 

Grow up, reject idle superstition and keep the faith.