Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Tears Of The World


The doctor was "IN".

Dr. Annette high-fived her assistant Roberto as she entered the morning office. Her political "Hero Savior Man" (HSM) had just been elected Dear Leader over all the land!

"Now we're going to see some changes for the better! He's a fighter and a truth-teller. That's why they keep trying to take him down: they can't handle the truth!"

"What wrong with these people, Dr. Annette?"

"I don't know, Roberto, but I do. Some people just want to stay in a bubble and hear only what they want to hear. And the minute the truth gets in they melt like a snowflake!"

"Just no living with peoples like that!"

"You're so right! But now there'll be no more fake news. No more being a sucker. No more being  victimized."

"Yes, is good, Dr. Annette, ma'am! Muy bueno!"

"You know, Roberto, HSM hates dirty Spics like you. Kind of surprised to see you supporting him."

"Oh, not worry, Dr. Annette. I'm good Spic, hate on myself very much, yes."

"That's the spirit!" encouraged the deluded doctor. "I knew I hired a non-white for a reason - especially when I've no fruit to pick."

HSM was conducting a holy war, removing any and all critics who spoke truly, burning down their houses in scorched earth policy, and when they came to complain he called himself a victim. Dr. Annette gleefully joined in the purge, lighting fires, joyfully disconnecting from reality as she descended into political fantasy. And this was how she intended to save that which she valued above all: her medical practice.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a doctor more dedicated to her calling. Dr. Annette was relentless in her pursuit of new methods of healing, certified in techniques rare in the land. She did not suffer fools. If you came seeking advice only to not heed or listen to the truth she was conveying, she would not waste her time. Live or die, it's up to you to choose life or be a victim. And these same qualities she projected onto HSM, however falsely.


Deborah Hanssen Brown (DHB) was also a doctor. She was young and just starting out, looking to make a name for herself and reap the ensuing rewards in gobbling greed as she opened "Debby's Best Little Clinic In Texas". She too was a supporter of HSM, in the most extreme possible way.

One day she ran across a client of Dr. Annette, a man suffering in ill health, overweight with aching joints. "That woman was mean to me! She said if I keep eating Twinkies and Ding Dongs for dinner every day all sorts of bad things was gonna happen to me. And guess what? They did, damn her!!"

DHB was incensed. "That liberal witch! How could she do that to you? Just imagine spreading fake news like that. Don't you worry, you can eat all the junk food you want and be just fine!"

The man beamed with gratitude. "Thank you, doc! I feel so much better now about my idiocy."

"That's what it's all about! And don't worry. I'll take out that witch denying you your freedom. I'll stop her campaign of terror."

BHB began her wave of terror through every media outlet possible. "Dr. Annette lets space aliens use her clients for experiments! She locks people in cages if they don't do what she says! She makes up fake facts just to cover herself. This woman must be stopped at all costs. She'll get everyone killed!"

Her angry army of junk foodies, lazy lay-abouts, and other self-destructive degenerates vociferously echoed her talking points. But when the media brought in doctors who claimed diet and exercise were essential to good health, DHB cried out in a fit of fury. "See? This is why everyone hates the media: FAKE NEWS! Making people feel bad about themselves. I am a victim persecuted for telling the truth. And remember: if they'll do this to me, they'll do it to you too!"

"Burn the witches!"

Dr. Annette first tried responding with actual health facts but was drowned out by ferocious accusations of betrayal. "She's a free-thinker like we're too afraid to be! She's not one of us!"

She tried feverishly to prove she too was an HSM supporter but it was too late, Dr. Annette branded a liar for life even as she tried to fight back. "DHB is a fraud who harms her clients with malpractice. She burns downs homes and when people call her out for it, calls herself a victim, of all things! She's merely projecting her own incompetence onto others in an effort to save herself from revelation."

DHB immediately set a press conference to soak in the media spotlight. "What a snowflake! She can't handle the truth! Doesn't care about anyone but herself. She's just trying to save her failing practice as everyone comes to me now! The people have spoken! The truth has been voted on."

As DHB's assertions of fact were far more entertaining and self-serving to the public than Dr. Annette's, Dr. Annette watched her practice slowly erode until barely a trickle of clients ventured past her tainted doors. She cried to an absent God for help as no god on earth was left to her. It seemed she was doomed to live out her life a shadow of what she once was.

Verbal, a longtime client who'd never consider anyone else for his doctor, finished his appointment near the end of the day, Dr. Annette confiding her woes to him.

"If a space ship landed outside to take me away, I'd get on it in a heartbeat! Why is it no one values me anymore?"

"You already know. Like the good book says: the truth will set us free - and the truth is always love."

Well, Heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone
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