Resident EVil A

re you familiar with the Resident Evil movie series? If not allow me to provide some insight.

The premise revolves around a special military unit that fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. The flesh eaters serve as the army to defeat the humans. This film series has a familiar theme to several other film series like The Matrix and The Terminator in that they all share in common a supercomputer component that acts as the major villain in each film.

The antagonist is always the human desiring to control the weapon that will keep the people under control over whom the antagonist exerts power. However, as we witness in our own lives the antagonists are so entrenched mentally and emotionally in their desire for power that they fail to realize that the evil that they invest in to keep in check those whom they seek to enslave eventually breaks free of the antagonist reins and becomes an out-of-control monster that grows, mutates, and evolves faster than the antagonist can manage.

As I look around and observe the social-political and economic shenanigans of our current day government

I am reminded of “Resident Evil,” particularly viewing the main culprit at the helm being former president Don- ald Trump. How so? Well, he’s that mad man that has a voracious appetite to rule the world. In the “Resident Evil” series the supercomputer is the tool that exceeds everyone else’s ability to do so. Percival Spencer Parks - more commonly known as “Spence” - is the hidden main antagonist of the first Resident Evil film. He is one of the two main antagonists in the 2002 film Resident Evil alongside the Red Queen (the supercomputer created by man). However, he was hired by Dr. Alexander Isaacs to start the outbreak.

In our real-life saga, Trump is Dr. Alexander Issacs because he is the orchestrator of all the seemingly corrupted political ideologies that have emerged as the evil unleashed from its natural holding place representing the evil unleashed. The natural holding place was the mores, protocols, rules, laws, and agreements amongst the people that kept in check the balance of mutual respect and acceptance of one another’s differences in points of view, ideologies, gender, religions, ethnicities, race, cultures, and perspectives. But when Donald Trump stepped into the spotlight and conveyed his very low-life demeanor and thinking of others in crass rudimentary verbal expressions like making fun of the disabled or insulting Senator John McCain, well America sunk phantom’s low.

The Red Queen is the supercomputer that has the power to release the nerve gas that annihilates the last human-kind aspect of the living transforming them into zombies that devour the living breathing humans whose lives give sustenance to their now-dead minds/no longer thinking beings with souls or concern from other humans. Their only objective is their self-serving survival. They can evolve and emerge as powerful intelligent dogs.

In our reality, the Red Queen is the nation’s acceptance of the crude and unacceptable behavior of a fowl mouth common man like Trump its leader of a sophisticated world-class country. Well by virtue of Trump’s presidential win and term, he destroyed the myth. Suddenly, the world stood still as it observed the world leader of the democratic free world fall into the clutches of its Red Queen, which threatened everything it had once stood for, and the virus kept spreading.

I clearly see the current Republican supporters of Donald Trump as virus-infected zombies. As the virus spewed by Trump’s charismatic hypnotic charm spread infecting Trump followers who inhaled it and absorbed the rhetoric, which once was laughable and unbelievable, unacceptable, horrid behavior, became the in-vogue ‘way of being.’ Alternative realities took form and hold of Republican senators and representatives. Each emerging as virus carriers. Lindsey Graham, once a close colleague of Senator John McCain who for all practical purposes appeared to be a Southern gentleman emerged an outspoken bigot and a believer in what had taken over his sensibilities. The virus is alive and well in the Republican party and afoot in Congress today. They repeat Trump’s absurdities and lies; support his corrupt, reckless, and more importantly very dangerous behavior that-- can if allowed—bring down the United States.

Note: To date: all Republicans running against Trump, basically agree with and support his behavior publicly, and intended outcome. From my vantage point, that makes them the same, just different versions of the same eminent threat to democracy. Men who would not shy away from destroying democracy and creating some sort of authoritarian-led government.